Corporate Author

Central Okanagan Hospice House

Central Okanagan Hospice Association

Interior Health

Place of Publication

Kelowna, BC

Publisher

Central Okanagan Hospice Association

Publication Date

2012

Physical Description

18 minutes

Subjects

Hospice Care

Palliative Care

Terminal Care

Attitude to Death

Family

British Columbia

Popular Work

Language

English

Material Type

Video

DVD

Online

Audience

Professional

Location

Kelowna Cancer Info Ctr

Call Number

WB310 C397 2012

Copies

Author

Wilson, Tim

Place of Publication

Montreal, QC

Publisher

National Film Board of Canada

Publication Date

2008

Subjects

Attitude to Death

Terminally Ill - psychology

Dying

Adaptation, Psychological

Abstract

This documentary introduces us to Stephen Jenkinson, once the leader of a palliative care counselling team at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. Through his daytime job, he has been at the deathbed of well over 1,000 people. What he sees over and over, he says, is "a wretched anxiety and an existential terror" even when there is no pain. Indicting the practice of palliative care itself, he has made it his life's mission to change the way we die - to turn the act of dying from denial and resistance into an essential part of life. - Website

Language

English

Material Type

Video

Online

Audience

Patient or Public

Professional

Location

Internet