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Death on Request
- 1994 ----- color ----- 57 min ----- vhs
- This gentle but astonishing documentary records Cees de Joode, a Dutch man suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)--an incurable degenerative muscle disease--as he, his wife Antoinette, and his doctor choose euthanasia to end his torment. Chronicles the period after which Cees made his decision, the many visits his doctor paid on him and Antoinette, and the actual administration of the lethal injection. When the time comes, the doctor makes a final trip to see his patient "with lead in his shoes." Cees toasts their health, sips his last port, and slowly directs his wheelchair to his bed, where he will end his life peacefully, as he wished, with his wife and doctor present.
- Topics: (Death and Dying, Family Life, Medicine, Nursing, Psychology: Clinical/Counseling, Social Work: Clinical/Counseling, Sociology)
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