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This collection of resources is designed to support individuals and families as they explore and reflect on end-of-life. Here, you’ll find a curated selection of books, films, podcasts, and talks that offer different perspectives, insights, and approaches to understanding this deeply personal journey.
We recognize that everyone connects with these topics in their own way, so we invite you to explore what resonates with you and return to what feels most meaningful along the way.
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Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning writer Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking, yet practical perspective on death and dying in Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them). Informed by her many years working as a nurse, with more than a decade in palliative care, Tisdale provides a frank, direct, and compassionate meditation on the inevitable
“She wanted something in between, just enough time to put her affairs in order and get a few things off her chest. She got her wish. Not everyone gets theirs.”
The Art of Dying – written by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door – is a reassuring and thoroughly researched guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath.
When a loved one dies, the pain of loss can feel unbearable—especially in the case of a traumatizing death that leaves us shouting, “NO!” with every fiber of our body. The process of grieving can feel wild and nonlinear—and often lasts for much longer than other people, the nonbereaved, tell us it should.
The first ever practical, compassionate, and comprehensive guide to dying—and living fully until you do.
Being Mortal was named Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, and the Chicago Tribune.
Dr. Ira Byock, a doctor on the front lines of hospital care, illuminates the most important and controversial social issues of our time in The Best Care Possible.
Blending personal insights from twenty-five years of hospice volunteering with contemplative social science research, Contemplative Caregiving offers practical lessons about the transformative possibilities of compassionate end-of-life caregiving.
Grief doesn’t like to be quiet. It doesn’t care for euphemisms, small talk, or polite avoidance. It wants to be felt—fully, honestly, and out loud.
Death has a 100 per cent success rate. We can’t escape its inevitability, nor can we deny its existence. So, when someone close to us dies or we are confronted by our own mortality, why are we utterly unprepared?
Losing a loved one–whether a spouse, parent, child, sibling, or friend–leaves people feeling overwhelmed and hopeless. Holidays and other special occasions seem to intensify the pain. Whether the occasion is Christmas or Easter, a birthday or anniversary, these celebrations force the bereaved to again face the reality of a loved one’s absence.
Ted is Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn’s older brother, best friend, and the “ringmaster of her days.” On a September morning when she is six, she wakes up and Ted is gone. Her parents explain that he went to the hospital for a while. “A while” turns out to be eight years in a plastic bubble, where he dies of a rare autoimmune disease at age seventeen.
For readers of Being Mortal and Modern Death, an ICU and Palliative Care specialist offers a framework for a better way to exit life that will change our medical culture at the deepest level
In this moving and compassionate classic, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years’ experience tending the terminally ill.
The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project and pioneer behind the compassionate care movement shares an inspiring exploration of the lessons dying has to offer about living a fulfilling life.
Four simple phrases— “Please forgive me,” “I forgive you,” “Thank you,” and “I love you”—carry enormous power to mend and nurture our relationships and inner lives. These four phrases and the sentiments they convey provide a path to emotional wellbeing, guiding us through interpersonal difficulties to life with integrity and grace.
A poignant and transporting cross-cultural love story set against the lush backdrop of the Sicilian countryside, where one woman discovers the healing powers of food, family, and unexpected grace in her darkest hour.
Updated to commemorate its 20th anniversary, this classic resource further explores the effects of grief and sheds new light on how to begin to take effective actions to complete the grieving process and work towards recovery and happiness.
Grieving Dads: To the Brink and Back is a collection of candid stories from grieving dads that were interviewed over a two year period. The book offers insight from fellow members of, in the haunting words of one dad, “this terrible, terrible club,” which consists of men who have experienced the death of a child.
The Group offers a singular perspective on grief by weaving together the latest thinking on bereavement, resiliency and post-traumatic growth with the true story of seven men who were raising children on their own after the deaths of their wives. The men connected with each almost immediately, and over the next several years forged a deep bond as their monthly meetings evolved into a forum for healing and personal reinvention that transformed them in unexpected ways.
From the host of the popular podcast, Terrible, Thanks for Asking, comes a wise, humorous roadmap and caring resource for anyone going through the loss of a loved one—or even a difficult life moment.
Of the many critical conversations we will all have throughout our lifetime; few are as important as the ones discussing death. Yet few of these conversations are happening. Inspired by his experience with his own father and countless stories from others who regret not having these conversations, Michael Hebb cofounded Death Over Dinner–an organization that encourages people to pull up a chair, break bread, and talk about the one thing we all have in common
In Life After the Diagnosis, Dr. Steven Z. Pantilat, a renowned international expert in palliative care demystifies the medical system for patients and their families. He makes sense of what doctors say, what they actually mean, and how to get the best information to help make the best medical decisions.
Dr. Haider Warraich is a young and brilliant voice in the conversation about death and dying. Dr. Warraich takes a broader look at how we die today, from the cellular level up to the very definition of death itself.
What will I do without her?
One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross explores the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Through sample interviews and conversations, she gives readers a better understanding of how imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve that patient, and the patient’s family, bringing hope to all who are involved.
As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan discovered she’d been granted a powerful chance to witness firsthand what she calls the “spiritual work of dying”—the work of finding or making meaning of one’s life. Instead of talking, she mainly listened to stories of hope and regret, shame and pride, mystery and revelation and secrets held too long. Most of all, though, she listened as her patients talked about love—love for their children and partners and friends; love they didn’t know how to offer; love they gave unconditionally; love they, sometimes belatedly, learned to grant themselves.
From Facebook’s COO and Wharton’s top-rated professor, the #1 New York Times best-selling authors of Lean In and Originals: a powerful, inspiring, and practical book about building resilience and moving forward after life’s inevitable setbacks.
Present Through the End is a go-to resource for everyone supporting someone at the end of life–from the moment we first learn that someone is dying through the time of death and beyond.
Unthinkable. Unbelievable. Heartbreaking.
A moving memoir and an extraordinary love story that shows how an expert physician became a family caregiver and learned why care is so central to all our lives and yet is at risk in today’s world.
As the American born daughter of immigrants, Dr. Sunita Puri knew from a young age that the gulf between her parents’ experiences and her own was impossible to bridge, save for two elements: medicine and spirituality. Between days spent waiting for her mother, an anesthesiologist, to exit the OR, and evenings spent in conversation with her parents about their faith, Puri witnessed the tension between medicine’s impulse to preserve life at all costs and a spiritual embrace of life’s temporality. And it was that tension that eventually drew Puri, a passionate but unsatisfied medical student, to palliative medicine–a new specialty attempting to translate the border between medical intervention and quality-of-life care.
#1 New York Times Bestseller • Pulitzer Prize Finalist • Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times Book Review, People, NPR, The Washington Post, Slate, Harper’s Bazaar, Time Out New York, Publishers Weekly, and BookPage
“Once in a generation, a book comes along that alters the way society views a topic. 
Straightforward and compassionate, When Dinosaurs Die explains death, dying, and coping with grief and loss in simple and accessible language for young kids and families.
For readers of Atul Gawande and Paul Kalanithi, a palliative care doctor’s breathtaking stories from 30 years spent caring for the dying.
In the Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience; this book is a portrait of a marriage–and a life, in good times and bad–that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or childLIBROS SOBRE DUELO
Este libro de Marcelo Rittner te dice cómo el dolor “que te ciega, te enfurece” es un sentimiento que tienes que vencer para convertirlo en un camino de liberación, para darte cuenta de que la esencia de ese ser querido sigue acompañándote, guiándote, y que realmente no lo has perdido. Aprenderás que la lealtad a la vida es la que nos permite aprender a decir adiós.
Cada uno de los doce verbos que conforman este libro es un paso que debemos dar en el camino hacia el amor propio y el autocuidado.
Gaby Pérez Islas te guía y aconseja sobre qué hacer ante una pérdida, qué no decir al confortar, lo que sí ayuda, cómo explicar a los niños situaciones límite, reponerse, recuperar la autoestima y el sentido de seguridad, y salir fortalecido para alcanzar de nuevo una vida feliz.
En este libro, los autores exploran las dinámicas familiares involucradas cuando muere alguien. A través de su propia experiencia de perder dos hijos pequeños, muestran cómo la aflicción puede acercar de verdad a la familia en lugar de destrozarla.
Analiza el fenómeno de la muerte de un hijo en la familia desde diversos ángulos y perspectivas: desde la vivencia de los padres, las respuestas de la ciencia ante el tema, y los puntos de vista desde la filosofía, la teología y la poesía.
La cuna vacía es un libro cuya intención es de aportar luz a las parejas ante la pérdida de un bebé en algún momento del embarazo. En estas páginas encontrarás información, sobre el buen acompañamiento y el apoyo del entorno, la intervención psicológica, la despedida, los rituales tras la pérdida y los estudios médicos posteriores.
El autor Randy Frazee muestra en este libro lo que es simplemente una tradición cultural y lo que es verdaderamente bíblico. Este libro es una guía para enfrentar las preguntas frecuentes acerca de la vida y la muerte, lo que viene después y cómo debemos vivir hasta entonces. Frazee muestra a sus lectores, no solo la muerte de la cual Jesús vino a salvarnos, sino también la vida para la cual vino a salvarnos.
En este libro, el Dr. César Lozano nos enfrenta al doloroso, pero inevitable proceso de decir adiós y nos guía por la serie de cambios que cualquier despedida conlleva, ya sea como parte de nuestro crecimiento; la dolorosa muerte de un ser querido; el rompimiento de una relación amorosa; el adiós a una amistad, e incluso, el adiós a los hábitos y costumbres que nos hacen daño.
Visitas desde el cielo es la bella historia de amor de un hombre y su esposa que rápidamente se convierte en un reflejo del amor de Dios por sus hijos. Esta historia presenta a los lectores una imagen de lo que es la vida de un creyente después de abandonar la tierra. Proporciona un manual de duelo para aquellos que quedan atrás. Se basa profundamente en las Escrituras.LISTEN
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Directed and produced by Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neill (HBO’s Axios), Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America offers a fascinating look at the varied ways Americans are choosing to both find meaning and celebrate life as it comes to an end.
With attitudes about death and end-of-life choices rapidly changing, 2018 was the first time more Americans chose cremation over more expensive, traditional burials, disrupting the $16 billion a year funeral industry. As the baby boomer generation approaches death, more and more people are rethinking the ways end of life is recognized and are deciding to take control of what will happen when they die. Touching and heartfelt, the documentary spotlights a subject some might rather avoid, and presents it in a positive and thought-provoking manner – featuring stories of empowerment instead of avoidance.
Alternate Endings tells six stories of people nearing death and of family members of the recently deceased, who have chosen non-traditional end-of-life options and remembrances, from celebrations of life and living wakes, to green burials, extraterrestrial burials and more. Profoundly intimate and illuminating, the film explores what it means to be near death, either from age or terminal illness, and captures the healing power of honoring, giving thanks, and staying true to loved ones who have passed away.
Leila Johnson traveled to the Gulf of Mexico with her mother and aunt to place her father’s cremated remains in a memorial coral reef, a fitting tribute for a man who loved the ocean. After meeting with the director of Memorial Reef International who explains how the memorials create new habitats for ocean life devastated by dying coral, an emotional Leila mixes her father’s ashes with cement, adding a family photo she says will keep him company. The next morning, the cement reef is dropped in the ocean and Leila scuba dives to the seafloor to say a final goodbye, believing her father’s life has been given added meaning.
Guadalupe Cuevas, in San Antonio, Texas, has terminal cancer and is in renal failure. Guadalupe’s son and daughter, Guadalupe, Jr. and Alicia, are planning a living wake for their father, who says, “I’m going to feel like the luckiest person in the world” because his wife, kids and grandkids will all be with him at the gathering. On the day of the event, friends and family enjoy food and music and make emotional tributes to Guadalupe. On their decision to have a living wake, Guadalupe, Jr. says they wanted to make sure that “the guy who’s leaving knows he’s loved.” Guadalupe died peacefully on July 7, 2018 at the age of 80.
Barbara Jean Simon, in Austin, Texas, has pancreatic cancer and is planning her green burial, an environmentally-friendly alternative to traditional burial. Barbara travels to Eloise Woods Back to Nature Burials with her best friend TJ to pick out Barbara’s burial plot. Describing the process in which TJ will wash her body after she dies, Barbara says she’s overwhelmed by the unconditional love she feels. On April 28, 2018, Barbara died peacefully at home. Later, her friends and family wrap her body in biodegradable cloth and carry her to where she’ll be buried in a shallow grave next to a newly planted tree.
Sara Snider Green has chosen a space burial for her father “Tuna”, who she says was fascinated by space and time travel. Sara, her two kids and family friend Lisa are one of forty-five families who have come to Sierra County, New Mexico, to memorialize their loved ones by sending their cremated remains into space. Hitching a ride as a “secondary payload” with NASA, the families cheer as the rocket with the ashes of their loved ones is launched into space.
Dick Shannon, a former Silicon Valley engineer in Grass Valley, California, has terminal cancer. Having exhausted his treatment options, Dick has decided to use “medical aid in dying” (MAID), a legal procedure in the state. At a doctor’s visit, Dick and his wife learn the parameters for how he should take the drug cocktail that will end his life. Six months later, with his lungs failing, Dick hosts a get-together of close friends to say goodbye, and later shares a last dinner with his family. With his loved ones at his side, Dick died on his own terms on May 1, 2018. He was 76.
Emily and Ryan Matthias, in Van Meter, Iowa, had a five-year-old son Garrett who was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2017. When Garrett died, his parents respected his wishes not to have a funeral and instead held a party, a celebration of life, which took place ten days after his death. The event had everything that Garrett wanted – bouncy houses, snow cones and lots of kids having fun.
Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America is directed and produced by Matthew O’Neill and Perri Peltz; executive producers, Sheila Nevins, Jacqueline Glover; produced by Leah Williams, Xochitl Dorsey; edited by David Meneses; cinematography, Taylor Krauss and Matthew O’Neill; original music by Jonathan Zalben.
Billionaire Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) and car mechanic Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) are complete strangers, until fate lands them in the same hospital room. The men find they have two things in common: a need to come to terms with who they are and what they have done with their lives, and a desire to complete a list of things they want to see and do before they die. Against their doctor’s advice, the men leave the hospital and set out on the adventure of a lifetime.
In Disney/Pixar’s vibrant tale of family, fun and adventure, aspiring young musician named Miguel (voice of newcomer Anthony Gonzalez) embarks on an extraordinary journey to the magical land of his ancestors. There, the charming trickster Hector (voice of Gael Garcia Bernal) becomes an unexpected friend who helps Miguel uncover the mysteries behind his family’s stories and traditions.
Witness the heavy emotions that come with end-of-life decisions as doctors, patients and families in a hospital intensive care unit face harrowing choices.
An unlikely friendship between two misfit neighbours becomes an unexpected emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Starring Mark Duplass and Ray Romano.
Accomplished sports writer Mitch Albom (Hank Azaria) feels that his life is lacking, despite his success. When Mitch watches a television interview with his former university professor, Morrie Schwartz (Jack Lemmon), he is moved to reconnect with his old mentor, who is struggling with Lou Gehrig’s disease. As Mitch and Morrie get reacquainted, they engage in thoughtful conversations about a variety of significant topics, including love, happiness and death.
Professor Vivian Bearing (Emma Thompson), an expert on the work of 17th-century British poet John Donne, has spent her adult life contemplating religion and death as literary motifs. Diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer, she consents to an aggressive and experimental form of chemotherapy administered by Dr. Kelekian (Christopher Lloyd) and his assistant, Dr. Posner (Jonathan M. Woodward), her former student. Facing death on a personal level, she reflects on her life and work.
Featured Talks
Dr. Diane Meier is the director of the Center to Advance Palliative Care in New York City. As a palliative care specialist, she has an intimate view of how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting patients and their loved ones. Meier shares her Brief But Spectacular take on showing compassion during COVID-19.
In her brutally honest, ironically funny and widely read meditation on death, “You May Want to Marry My Husband,” the late author and filmmaker Amy Krouse Rosenthal gave her husband Jason very public permission to move on and find happiness. A year after her death, Jason offers candid insights on the often excruciating process of moving through and with loss — as well as some quiet wisdom for anyone else experiencing life-changing grief.
Thinking about death is frightening, but planning ahead is practical and leaves more room for peace of mind in our final days. In a solemn, thoughtful talk, Judy MacDonald Johnston shares 5 practices for planning for a good end of life.
In a talk that’s by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, writer and podcaster Nora McInerny shares her hard-earned wisdom about life and death. Her candid approach to something that will, let’s face it, affect us all, is as liberating as it is gut-wrenching. Most powerfully, she encourages us to shift how we approach grief. “A grieving person is going to laugh again and smile again,” she says. “They’re going to move forward. But that doesn’t mean that they’ve moved on.”
At the end of our lives, what do we most wish for? For many, it’s simply comfort, respect, love. BJ Miller is a hospice and palliative medicine physician who thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients. Take the time to savor this moving talk, which asks big questions about how we think on death and honor life.
In this deeply moving talk, Lucy Kalanithi reflects on life and purpose, sharing the story of her late husband, Paul, a young neurosurgeon who turned to writing after his terminal cancer diagnosis. “Engaging in the full range of experience — living and dying, love and loss — is what we get to do,” Kalanithi says. “Being human doesn’t happen despite suffering — it happens within it.”
“As a death doula, or someone who supports dying people and their loved ones, Alua Arthur spends a lot of time thinking about the end of life. In a profound talk that examines our brief, perfectly human time on this planet, she asks us to look at our lives through the lens of our deaths in seeking to answer the question: “What must I do to be at peace with myself so that I may live presently and die gracefully?”
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Películas Sobre la Muerte y el Duelo
A pesar de la prohibición de la música de varias generaciones de su familia, el joven Miguel sueña con convertirse en un músico consumado como su ídolo Ernesto de la Cruz. Desesperado por demostrar su talento, Miguel se encuentra en la impresionante y colorida Tierra de los Muertos. Después de conocer a un encantador tramposo llamado Héctor, los dos nuevos amigos se embarcan en un viaje extraordinario para descubrir la verdadera historia familiar de Miguel.
En este clásico de Disney, un joven ciervo llamado Bambi se une a sus nuevos amigos, un conejo llamado Thumper y una mofeta llamada Flower, para explorar su hogar en el bosque. Cuando era niño, aprende de su cariñosa madre y de su padre, el Gran Príncipe del Bosque, que hay peligros en los prados abiertos donde los cazadores pueden ver a los animales, y conoce a una hermosa joven llamada Faline. A medida que Bambi crece, aprende que hay tragedia, así como belleza y alegría en su mundo forestal y en el camino hacia la edad adulta.
El multimillonario Edward Cole (Jack Nicholson) y el mecánico de automóviles Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman) son completos extraños, hasta que el destino los lleva a la misma habitación del hospital. Los hombres descubren que tienen dos cosas en común: la necesidad de aceptar quiénes son y lo que han hecho con sus vidas, y el deseo de completar una lista de cosas que quieren ver y hacer antes de morir. En contra del consejo de su médico, los hombres abandonan el hospital y emprenden la aventura de su vida.
Esta película animada de Disney sigue las aventuras del joven león Simba, el heredero de su padre, Mufasa. El malvado tío de Simba, Scar, planea usurpar el trono de Mufasa atrayendo a padre e hijo a una estampida de ñus. Pero Simba escapa y solo Mufasa muere. Simba regresa como adulto para recuperar su tierra natal de Scar con la ayuda de sus amigos Timon y Pumba.
Después de perder a su madre, un niño es enviado a un hogar de acogida con otros huérfanos de su edad, donde comienza a aprender el significado de la confianza y el amor verdadero.
Kate (Meryl Streep), la matriarca infravalorada de la familia Gulden, es diagnosticada con cáncer. La hija y periodista Ellen (Renée Zellweger) regresa de la ciudad de Nueva York para cuidar a su madre a petición de su padre (William Hurt). Durante el tiempo que Kate pasa con sus padres, descubre secretos que nunca conoció en su infancia. Aunque Ellen siempre ha idolatrado a su padre, se entera de que su madre ha tenido una vida mucho más difícil de lo que pensaba.
En una pequeña ciudad del Norte de Italia, vive apaciblemente una familia formada por los padres (Giovanni y Paola) y dos hijos adolescentes: Irene, la mayor, y Andrea, el pequeño. Giovanni es psicoanalista. En su consulta, situada al lado de su apartamento, sus pacientes le confían sus neurosis, que contrastan con la calma de su propia existencia. Su vida se rige por una serie de costumbres o aficiones: leer, escuchar música, aislarse y agotarse haciendo largas carreras por la ciudad. Un domingo por la mañana, Giovanni tiene que salir para atender una urgencia, así que no puede ir a correr con su hijo como le había propuesto; el chico decide entonces ir a bucear con sus amigos.
Carlos Cristos, Galicia (1956). Licenciado en Medicina y Cirugía. Como médico de familia ha ejercido en Mallorca, donde reside con su mujer Carmen Font, también médico, y con Carmela, su hija de 10 años.
Como médico ha tenido que transmitir a muchos pacientes sus diagnósticos que son muy graves y ha tenido que acompañar a alguno de ellos hasta el final de su vida.
Pero un día Carlos se sentó ante su médico; ahora era él quien escuchaba su diagnóstico: AMS atrofia sistémica múltiple, una enfermedad neurodegenerativa, invalidante y mortal.
Carlos Cristos es una de esas voces que, como médico y como enfermo, reclama una vida y una muerte digna. Por eso invita a su amigo y director de cine Antoni P. Canet a que le acompañe en una narración: su camino hacia la muerte.
Tres personas que emprenden un viaje espiritual después de que la muerte afecta sus vidas de diferentes maneras. George (Matt Damon) es un trabajador de la construcción en San Francisco que puede comunicarse con los muertos. La reportera francesa Marie LeLay (Cécile de France) tiene una visión sobrenatural después de casi morir en el tsunami del Océano Índico de 2004. Mientras tanto, un colegial londinense sufre la pérdida de la persona más cercana a él.
Cuando Ann (Sarah Polley), madre trabajadora de dos hijos, descubre que tiene un cáncer de ovario terminal y los médicos le dan dos meses de vida, decide ocultarle a su familia la noticia. Haciendo pasar su creciente debilidad como un caso leve de anemia, Ann comienza a poner sus prioridades en orden en preparación para los últimos meses de su vida. Graba mensajes de cumpleaños para sus hijas, visita a su padre separado en prisión e incluso busca una esposa de reemplazo para su esposo, Lee (Mark Ruffalo).
Mar Adentro cuenta la historia de Ramón Sampedro, un pescador de 25 años -interpretado por el galardonado actor Javier Bardem- que se quedó tetrapléjico a causa de un accidente saltando al mar, y sobre su larga lucha para ganarse el derecho a terminar su vida con dignidad.
Frankie Dunn (Clint Eastwood) es un entrenador veterano de box de Los Ángeles que mantiene casi todos a distancia, excepto a su viejo amigo y socio Eddie “Scrap Iron” Dupris (Morgan Freeman). Cuando Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) llega al gimnasio de Frankie en busca de su experiencia, él se muestra reacio a entrenar a la joven, un trasplante de la clase trabajadora de Missouri. Finalmente cede y los dos forman un vínculo estrecho que los cambiará irrevocablemente a ambos.
En una película que juega con la idea de una narración sencilla, un grupo de personas con problemas descubre que están vinculadas de manera impredecible. Paul Rivers (Sean Penn) es un académico que se enfrenta a una enfermedad cardíaca terminal, pero su vida cambia debido a un accidente automovilístico que parece no estar relacionado con su dolencia. El accidente de tráfico, que involucra al ex convicto Jack Jordan (Benicio Del Toro) y el esposo de Cristina Peck (Naomi Watts), arruina vidas pero finalmente también las resucita.
Edward Bloom es un hombre que relata momentos de su vida añadiéndoles características fantásticas. Cuando lo hace en la boda de su hijo Will, éste deja de hablarle durante tres años. Trabajará como periodista en París y cuando la salud de su padre empeora, Will regresa junto a su esposa Josephine a Alabama.
Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley), una paciente de cáncer de 16 años, conoce y se enamora de Gus Waters (Ansel Elgort), un adolescente igualmente afligido de su grupo de apoyo para el cáncer. Hazel siente que Gus realmente la comprende. Ambos comparten el mismo ingenio mordaz y amor por los libros, especialmente la piedra de toque de Grace, “An Imperial Affliction” de Peter Van Houten. Cuando Gus recibe una invitación para conocer al autor solitario, él y Hazel se embarcan en la aventura de sus breves vidas.
Ben Thomas es un hombre con una misión. Dar partes vitales de su cuerpo a aquellos que necesitan desesperadamente un donante. Ben conoce a Emily Posa, una hermosa joven en riesgo de sufrir una enfermedad cardíaca mortal. Cuando Ben se enamora de Emily y comienza a abrirse con ella, queda claro que hay algo oscuro en su pasado que lo obliga a cometer estos aparentes actos de bondad al azar.
Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) es banquero, Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) es artista y los dos están locamente enamorados. Sin embargo, cuando Sam es asesinado por su amigo y socio corrupto Carl Bruner (Tony Goldwyn) por un turbio negocio, se queda vagando por la tierra como un espíritu impotente. Cuando se entera de la traición de Carl, Sam debe buscar la ayuda de la psíquica Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) para arreglar las cosas y proteger a Molly de Carl y sus matones.
Después de que Chris Nielsen (Robin Williams) muere en un accidente automovilístico, su guía espiritual, Albert (Cuba Gooding Jr.) lo guía a través del más allá. Su nuevo mundo es hermoso y puede ser lo que Chris imagina. Incluso sus hijos están ahí. Pero, cuando su esposa, Annie (Annabella Sciorra), se suicida y es enviada al infierno, Chris ignora las advertencias de Albert y viaja allí para salvarla. Al llegar, Chris descubre que rescatar a Annie será más difícil de lo que había imaginado.
Tres generaciones de una familia se unen por una mujer enferma cuyo deseo es morir antes de que su enfermedad empeore.
Cuentos y Otras Herramientas
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OUR VIDEO LIBRARY
Created by Hospice Giving Foundation from interviews, personal storytelling, and inspiring educators.
In January 2019, CEO Siobhan Greene had the opportunity to interview two of the founders of the first Hospice in Monterey. Oncology nurse Becky Allen and psychologist Stephen Connor worked with Dr. Jerry Rubin in the 1970s. This series of interview clips share their stories and the rich history of compassion through end of life in Monterey County.
HG Foundation Symposium
