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'Hospice care' is a type of health care that focuses on the sick or terminally ill patient's pain and symptoms and attending to their emotional and spiritual needs at the end of life.

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Working her first night shift at a hospice alone, a young nurse encounters a mysterious terminally-ill patient.

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At the hospice, the average remaining time for patients is 21 days. These patients prepare for their deaths. Park Soo-Myeong is 40 something year old man who is also a husband and father. Kim Jung-Ja is a mother of two sons. Park Jin-Woo was a math teacher. Shin Chang-Yeol lived a lonely life.

A man awakens in hospital, tied to the bed, with no idea where he is. His nurse says she will make him comfortable, but what excatly does that mean?

Our medical system is geared toward healing patients. But what if there's no cure available? This moving, intimate documentary uses three cases to explore how hospice care prepares both terminally ill patients and their families for a gentle, safe passage. While patients are given comfort, companionship, dignity and peace, families are prepared for their inevitable loss.

When he loses his way on a country road and is bitten by an animal, Maybury stumbles across a strange house where an extravagant dinner is taking place.

A year following four hospice nurses who question their calling as they face emotional distress, financial hardships and the possible closure of their facility.

Without words, the world would be a thing and not a quality of thought and reflection. By using words, we're giving shape to objects and concatenating our explanations of the world with our human experience. Words enunciate things found in the physical world, but these many ways of naming arise from different sources, since words are not a part of nature, but cultural strategies or invented tools to give meaning to things. Words can be changed and interchanged, reinforced or contradicted, and they often take forked paths. Every word is a host with whom we build a mutually interchangeable relationship; is this host a guest, a stranger or an enemy? Is the hospice we build from our words a shelter, a prison or a pathway to oblivion? How do human beings construct their own realities, their relationships with others and the story of their own existence through our world of words?

A woman on the brink of a breakdown kidnaps an abused boy, and they embark on a life-changing adventure together – as the cops and their families search for them.

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When Sumi, a high school senior raised at an orphanage, decides to suicide, hospice nurse Seojin dramatically stops her. Nowhere else to go, Sumi visits Seojin's hospital to find a way to end her life. For the first time, she finds attention, love, and comfort from those who are spending their last moments in life.

David is a nurse who works with terminally ill patients. Dedicated to his profession, he develops strong relationships with the people he cares for. But outside of work, it's a different story altogether.

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The Little Things explores the staff, families and children within the walls of Derian House Children’s Hospice. Their personal stories highlight the profound impact of the support offered whilst breaking down prejudices surrounding children’s hospice care, illuminating the enduring power of hope and resilience in the face of life's most profound challenges.

Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside

Switzerland is the only country in the world that allows foreigners to come and die on its territory. Since its founding in 1998, more than a thousand people have traveled to Zurich to end their lives with the help of the organization Dignitas. "Dignitas - Death on Prescription" is a documentary about an organization that provides people with terminal and incurable illnesses, intense unrelenting pain, and depression with a peaceful death. The organization's founder, lawyer Ludwig Minelli, is often the target of insults, especially from politicians, despite the fact that most Swiss citizens support the option of medically assisted suicide.

A father-daughter relationship evolves through an era of bohemian decadence in 1970s San Francisco to the sober and heartbreaking era of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s.

Emotions run high when three estranged sisters reunite in a cramped New York City apartment to watch over their ailing father during his final days.

Earth to earth, water to water. The body weight of a newborn child is up to 85 percent water, but in adulthood, the ratio can be cut into half. In a way, people dry up as they grow older. In Claudia Tosi’s documentary, people drink water, watch the rain and wait for their death. The Perfect Circle depicts a man and a woman, Ivano and Meris, who spend their final days at a hospice in the hills of Reggio Emilia, Northern Italy. Their illnesses are in the terminal stage and they know that death is only a matter of time. But the ever-nearing end may fleetingly be forgotten, like when they close their eyes and get lost in the music – until the bodies being carried out next door once again remind them of the inevitable. Death also becomes a part of life for the patients’ loved ones, who want to spend the last available moments with the soon to be departed.

When a hospice nurse finds herself trapped with a dementia patient, she begins to suspect something else is wrong with the woman, something otherworldly, and must fight to survive the night.

SERVING LIFE documents an extraordinary hospice program where hardened criminals care for dying fellow inmates. Narrated and executive produced by Academy Award®-winner Forest Whitaker, the film takes viewers inside Louisiana's maximum security prison at Angola, where the average sentence is more than 90 years.

A palliative care doctor meets with a series of dying patients.

Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as "more real than real," these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships, meaningful events and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life's meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance.

As her older sister enters at-home hospice care, Rose finds her biggest concern isn’t dying—it’s ensuring that she fulfills her unusual last wishes.

In the future, through The Terminal technology, the population are physically reconfigured from the nervous system up to fit their next job.

After a mysterious trauma, an elderly man begins to suffer from sleep paralysis, haunted by a sinister female figure. Sent to a care home, he discovers his new roommate behaves in disturbing ways-rituals he can only witness while paralyzed. As other residents begin to vanish, he must confront the dark presence invading his room before it consumes him too.

A New Understanding explores the treatment of end-of-life anxiety in terminally ill cancer patients using psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in some mushrooms, to facilitate deeply spiritual experiences. The documentary explores the confluence of science and spirituality in the first psychedelic research studies since the 1970s with terminally ill patients. As a society we devote a great deal of attention to treating cancer, but very little to treating the human being who is dying of cancer.

Jonathan Stavleu explores, in a stream-of-consciousness video essay, the relationship people have with water and what happens when access to it is taken away. For this work, he examines anecdotal histories he has heard from Estonians, as well as stories from his own family history in the Netherlands, weaving them together into a journal-like narrative.

While their mother goes to work, Albion has to take care of his strong-willed little brother Mensur, who suffers from a mysterious illness. Together, they try to ignore the fact that Mensur's health is getting worse. Until Mensur confides a secret to his older brother. He is not sick at all—in fact, he is turning into a turtle.

A young man goes off to say to his sweetheart that he loves her, while two burglars rob his house.