Palliative Care Video List - Pain Resource Center

assisted suicide. Three patients, their families, and their doctors discuss some of the hardest decisions,including how to pay for care, what constitutes humane treatment, and how to balance dying anddignity. In the end, do these patients die the way they wanted? Yes… and no. Films for the Humanities& Sciences FMU10480 Video $129A Decision Making Framework for Clinical Ethics 53 minutes – Differentiating between ethicaldilemmas and moral distress, this program provides a framework for making clinical ethical decisionand explores the framework through case studies. HVS/2002/#IAL4393- $279 http://www.insightmedia.comA Different Kind of Care 90 minutes At the end of life, what many Americans want is physical andspiritual comfort in a home setting. In this program, Bill Moyers presents the important strides beingmade in the area of palliative care at pioneering institutions such as new York’s Mt. Sinai Hospital andMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. These advances are bringing peace to those who fear thatthey will be a burden to loved ones, will suffer needlessly, or will be abandoned in their hour of greatestneed. Films for the Humanities & Sciences #DKP10479 Video $129A Family Undertaking by Elizabeth Westrate 56 minutes This new documentary explores the complexpsychological, cultural, legal and financial issues surrounding an important and growing new trend: thehome funeral movement. A Family Undertaking profiles several families who have made the decisionto forego the typical mortuary funeral and instead care for their loved ones at home. The programrecognizes that there are many caring professional undertakers, and that their services are welcomed bymany families. Fanlight Productions CD-374 Video $229A Fate Worse Than Death 50 minutes This engrossing documentary follows several families who mustdecide whether to withdraw artificial life support from a loved one in a coma or vegetative state.Relatives, doctors, nurses, attorneys and ethicists comment on the complex moral and legal dilemmassuch tragedies pose for families, for health providers, and for society as a whole. The video alsoincludes a valuable discussion of living wills and durable powers of attorney. Fanlight ProductionsISBN 1-57295-076-5; CR-076 Video $195A Friend Called Lyle 30 minutes The documentary portrays the spiritual and courageous struggle ofLyle Matthews, who, at the age of 39, was diagnosed as having breast cancer. During her last months,Lyle shared with filmmaker Bob Markee her fear, anger, frustration, and insight. This powerful,heartfelt video addresses the process of surrendering into death, and explores the possibilities ofconscious dying. Terra Nova Films Video $145; Rental $45A Journey Back: Coping with a Parent’s Suicide 24 minutes When a parent commits suicide, he or sheleaves behind a wake of pain and guilt for children and spouse. Louise Gallop, who made this film, wasnine years old when her father shot himself. She and her brothers and sisters grew into productivehuman beings, upstanding members of the community. But they never spoke of the personal tragedythat engulfed their family. A Journey Back is a moving account of her coming to terms, fifteen yearslater, with her father’s suicide. Despite the family’s initial reluctance to talk about their traumaticexperience, it is evident that the process of opening up communication has helped all of them.Filmakers Library Video $195, Rental $55A Matter of Time 20 minutes Nurses and volunteers in hospice deal with dying patients every day. Howdo they cope with so much loss? How do they face grieving families and dying people in pain day afterVideo list Page 11 of 68Rev 09