Palliative Care Video List - Pain Resource Center

Driving to Utopia 29 minutes Driving to the nearby town of Utopia, TX, was all Pauline thought shewould ever seek to do. Her aspirations after widowhood, however, continue to grow, as do those ofElena and Emily, the other women who share their reflections on widowhood in this entertaining andinformative video. Together, this trio of strong older women paints a portrait of coping and of survivalof the heart. The three women draw upon their memories to explain to viewers their initial expectationsof retirement, the painful and sudden loss of their husbands, and the means by which they havetriumphed over their isolation to develop new, self-sufficient lives. Aquarius Productions, Inc. Video$175, Rental $50During Life 10 minutes The journey of soul discovery consists in cultivating a moment-to-momentawareness that we are more than our physical body and personality. This film explores how we cancultivate soul-receptivity all throughout life, and offers a universal method of directly experiencing ofthe soul. Aquarius Productions, Inc. #ENDPREPARE $99Dying 97 minutes Dying is a personal, profound and poignant memoir of three terminally ill cancerpatients and how they faced their deaths. Sally, a 46-year-old with brain cancer, comes home to hermother’s house to die. In a rare study of shared grief, the elderly mother and the dying daughter areconnected by the daily tasks of caretaking. The middle story is about Bill, dying in her early 30’s, andhis wife, Harriet. Bill is stoic, but his wife rages against her fate of being left alone with their twogrowing children. The third is the story of Rev. Bryant, a thin black preacher whose unassumingmanner shows his courage as his life slides to and end. On learning he has no chance of a cure, hepreaches a sermon on dying, returns south with his family for one last look around, and at the end, withgrandchildren playing at his bedside, dies with dignity. This film shows how each human being livesand dies as an individual, with deep personal needs and attitudes. It will sensitize health careprofessionals and counselors to the human factors that mitigate the anguish of both the patients andthose who care for them. Filmakers Library Video $295, Rental $75Dying to Be Heard… Is Anybody Listening 25 minutes This program offers specific advice on how torecognize teens in danger of committing suicide and successfully intervene. It talks to teens who haveattempted suicide about their reasons for trying and about their lives after treatment, and profiles aTexas community that banded together to stop a rash of teen suicides. Films for the Humanities &Sciences BKU2385 Video $89.95Dying Wish 52 minutes This hard-hitting program looks at some difficult issues: Whether to keep abrain-dead patient’s heart beating with machines or take extraordinary measures to resuscitate aseriously ill patient? Whether health professionals can assist death, or fail to prevent it? What about thecost of keeping incurable patients alive while others die because they lack access to the procedures thatwould cure them? Films for the Humanities & Sciences BKU2085 Video $89.95Dying with Dignity: The Sun City Choice 12 minutes In this program, NewsHour correspondent SusanDentzer reports on the life and death in Sun City, AZ, a vibrant retirement community where hospice isthe preferred form of end-of-life care. Dartmouth Medical School’s John Wennberg and others considerthe desire of many senior citizens with terminal illnesses to make peace with death rather than fight it.They also confront the fact that statistics show no direct correlation between costly ICU interventionsand patient longevity. As America’s elderly population doubles over the next 35 years, will moreseniors opt for meeting the end in the Sun City way? Films for the Humanities & Sciences #DKP10735Video $69.95Video list Page 29 of 68Rev 09