Palliative Care Video List - Pain Resource Center

ceremony in enabling a community to face tragedy, provide support to its members, and find a path tocommunity healing. Study guide available online at www.fanlight.com. Fanlight Productions CD-373Video $250Castles in the Sand 52 minutes This is the tragic story of Josh Littman, a television reported who foundthe feature story of his life in his own life. When the doctors told him he had leukemia, he turned thecamera on himself, relentlessly recording the roller-coaster swings of hope and despair, remission andfinal decline. Films for the Humanities & Sciences BYF1791 Video $89.95Cervical Cancer 19 minutes Each year approximately 15,000 women, most between the ages of 40 and55, are diagnosed with cervical cancer, making it the third most common cancer of the femalereproductive system. This program discusses the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, with specialemphasis on the importance of early detection through regular Pap tests. Several physicians from thenational Institutes of Health and National Cancer Institute discuss current research, including somepromising vaccines, and highlight various Pap screening programs available to women. Films for theHumanities & Sciences BKT7522 Video $129; Rental $75Chemo Paintings 57 minutes Dorothy Bryan takes the viewer through her struggles with surgery, drugsand chemotherapy. Her feelings and emotions are vividly expressed through a 10-piece series ofpaintings, which help provide insights into many issues. Her use of art as a form of therapy opens awindow through which we can see the importance of healing the whole person. Dorothy also shares herinsights and wisdom with her granddaughter who is also diagnosed with cancer. Aquarius Productions,Inc. Video $195Childhood’s End: A Look at Adolescent Suicide 28 minutes This documentary portrait of three suicidalyoungsters will help counselors, parents and young people begin to constructive dialogue. Anna was 16when she broke away from her family. Now at 20 she remembers the events leading up to her overdose.Therapy and a network of friends have helped. Sherri came from an affluent background, but clearlysomething was missing. She made tow attempts to end her life. Today she is beginning to see options.For Michael, getting help didn’t work. When he killed himself at 18, his two closest fronds weredevastated. This film shows the importance of using all resources to help troubled youngsters.Filmakers Library Video $195, Rental $55Children Die, Too 26 minutes No one is ever prepared for a child’s death or able to accept it withequanimity. A couple who lost their three-year-old, a teenager whose sister died from leukemia, andothers who have lived through the death of a child talk about their experiences. Specialists in dealingwith childhood terminal disease and death talk about how people can help each other after the death ofa child and how surviving children can be helped to express grief. Films for the Humanities APW2374Video $149, Rental $75Choices 13 minutes Choices focuses on the values issues that guide decision making and theimportance of advance directives as tools for communicating those values. Its length makes it ideal forprogram planners requiring a video to introduce advance directives. Choices features poignantconversations with individuals dealing with difficult end-of-life decisions. It is accompanied by avalues history questionnaire that can be used to help viewers explore their own values that will affectend-of-life decisions. The two together provide and excellent basis for a community education program.Choice in Dying Publications/Videos V100 Video $89.95Video list Page 23 of 68Rev 09