Resources

DVD/Video

Facing Death

www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/facing-death/

A Frontline program that aired on PBS in November 2010. The link above allows you to view Chapter 1 of the 5 parts to this video. Beneath the video is a discussion forum.

The film crew was given extraordinary access to The Mount Sinai Medical Center, one of New York's biggest hospitals, to take a closer measure of today's complicated end-of-life decisions. In this intimate, groundbreaking film, doctors, patients and families speak with remarkable candor about the increasingly difficult choices people are making at the end of life: when to remove a breathing tube in the ICU; when to continue treatment for patients with aggressive blood cancers; when to perform a surgery; and when to call for hospice.

Consider the Conversation
www.considertheconversation.org

Offers a DVD documentary of end of life care and decisions. An excellent “Resources” page on this site is full of many resources for learning more.