Right of Way
Bette Davis and James Stewart star in this 1983 film as an aging couple who have decided to end their lives together after the wife is diagnosed with a debilitating terminal illness, in spite of objections by their daughter and…
Soylent Green
This ecological dystopian thriller film portrays the year 2022. The cumulative effects of overpopulation, pollution and some apparent climate catastrophe have caused severe worldwide shortages of food, water and housing. Government-assisted euthanasia is available on request. Starring: Charlton Heston, Leigh…
The Farewell Pary (Israel)
This is a wonderful Israeli movie telling a unique, compassionate and surprisingly funny story of a group of folks at a Jerusalem retirement community who decide to help their terminally ill friend end his life. When rumors of their assistance…
A Short Stay in Switzerland
This movie mirrors the dilemma that many fear or face in our current culture. If you shared your decision to have a “peaceful death,” how do you perceive your loved ones would respond? Inspired by the true story of Dr…
Youth in Oregon
Frank Langella plays a retired doctor who is unwilling to endure further treatment for a hopeless heart condition. But when he announces his intention to travel from New York to Oregon to seek legal approval to end his life comfortably,…
I Accuse (Ich Klage An)
I Accuse is a classic and controversial German film from 1941 about euthanasia, or mercy killing. A doctor admits to administering a fatal overdose to his incurably ill wife and is judged in court — and in the public forum.…
The Leisure Seeker
Studies show that most people would want to die at home. BUT — not these two! Why not live it up in the time remaining rather than sit in a nursing home? See how these two award winners solve the…
You’re Not You
A life-changing bond develops between a woman (Hilary Swank) with ALS whose marriage is on the rocks and the brash collegian (Emmy Rossum) hired to be her assistant.At what point does this talented woman feel her life is at an…
Ikiru (To Live)
One of director Akira Kurosawa's most famous films, this 1952 masterpiece is about Mr. Watanabe, a man who discovers he has terminal cancer.How he decides to use the time left to him is the question. What would you do?
The Sea Inside (Mar Adentro)
This 2004 award-winning film is based on the real-life story of Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem), who was left quadriplegic after a diving accident, and his 28-year campaign in support of euthanasia and the right to end his life.
The Event (2003) with Olympia Dukakis (U.S.)
The untimely event of an AIDS patient causes a criminal investigation.
Mary Kills People & Eyewitness
Double Feature! Mary Kills People is a serious and highly rated TV program about two doctors who, in their extra time, help suffering people who plead for it, to end their lives. This does not romanticize or minimize the dangers…
Youth in Oregon
Frank Langella plays a retired doctor who is unwilling to endure further treatment for a hopeless heart condition. But when he announces his intention to travel from New York to Oregon to seek legal approval to end his life comfortably,…
Dark Victory
In this 1939 film Betty Davis plays a long island socialite/heiress who has a malignant brain tumor.
An Act of Murder
A stern hard-liner judge with little mercy has a moral dilemma when his wife is diagnosed with an incurable and painful illness. This 1948 film features Fredric March as the husband/judge.
Me Before You
A 2016 American-British film shot in beautiful British settings. A young handsome, wealthy man confined to a wheel chair, wants to end his life at Dignitas in Switzerland. Love develops with his caregiver; she is strenuously opposed to his hastening…
Critical Care
A 1997 film directed by Sidney Lumet. It is a satire about American medicine and keeping patients alive, including the role of insurance. Our movies don't usually make you laugh but this one should. R rated ! The film is…
Still Alice
The story of a young professor who develops early onset Alzheimer's. What would you do? How would your family react? What if you could no longer keep your job? Would you try to take your life? How? How can you…
Live and Let Go: An American Death
Independent, patriotic, realistic, optimistic, terminally ill Sam Niver plans and executes his own death — with the help of his two adult children.
Okuribito (Departures)
A sensitive award-winning Japanese film about a young man who stumbled across a job working as a Japanese ritual mortician. Shunned by his wife and friends for working with death, they changed their minds when they realize the beauty and…
Harold and Maude
1971 dark comedy film classic: Harold, obsessed with death, meets the 79-year-old carefree Maude.
Honey (Miele)
An Italian film about a young woman who helps people die. What happens when her guidelines are violated? How does this occupation affect her life? Are there other “Honeys” around? Should there be?
How to Die in Oregon
How terminally ill persons, their family, and friends consider whether and when to take a lethal medication overdose as allowed in Oregon since 1997 and soon to be available in California through the End of Life Option Act. Winner of…
Being Mortal
Based on the best-selling book by Dr. Atul Gawande, this documentary shows him meeting with colleagues and patients to discuss treatment choices at the end of life. Up-close and even better than the book!
The Farewell Pary (Israel)
Residents of a retirement community figure out how to help their fellow retirees who are suffering a bad death.
A Final Promise
A boy helps his brother die and makes a vow to himself to end his own life at 37— until he falls in love with a woman with ALS who needs his help. Based on the novel, How Angel's Die,…
The Sea Inside
Xavier Barden (A Spanish film about a quadriplegic man who gets help to die from a Spanish RTD group)
Dying Wish
Documentary of the process of dying by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking. It follows a retired surgeon with end-stage cancer on hospice who chose this method to end his life. Click here for information from the producers about the film…
How to Die in Oregon
Award Winning Documentary - including 2011 Sundance Film Festival U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Award This exceptional film documents how physician aid in dying works in Oregon by following a woman with liver cancer over the months following her diagnosis. There…
A Short Stay in Switzerland
A fictional account of a true story of a doctor going to Dignitas to die.
The Suicide Plan
A thorough documentary on a subject rarely explored, assistance in dying. It covers the Final Exit Network and other right to die activities
The Barbarian Invasions
Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003. Canadian fictional account of a disagreeable man who dies peacefully. '"The Barbarian Invasions" is a movie about a man who dies about as pleasantly as it's possible to imagine; the…
Grace Quigley
Old lady finds a reluctant hit man to help her older friends die. With Katherine Hepburn and Nick Nolte.
Amour (shown at a movie theatre)
An older man caring for his wife who has repeated strokes. Read Faye Girsh's analysis of how the death in this film could have been better.
Right of Way
With Bette Davis and Jimmy Stewart An older couple want to die together despite the daughter's protestations.