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Griefwalker

https://bccalibrary.andornot.com/en/permalink/catalog121788

Wilson, Tim. Montreal, QC: National Film Board of Canada , 2008.

Audience: Patient or Public; Professional

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 existentia…

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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