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LIFE Before Death - The Global Crisis of Untreated Pain.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health.
- Medicine.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Place of Publication:
- Moonshine Agency, 2012.
- [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
- Language Note:
- In English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- LIFE Before Death is a multi-award winning social action documentary film series about the global crisis in untreated pain and the dramatic life-changing effects pain treatment and palliative care services can deliver to patients and their families.. The film asks the fundamental question underpinning our mortality: How will you die?. This beautifully filmed journey takes us to 11 countries as we follow the remarkable health professionals battling the sweeping epidemic of pain that threatens to condemn one in every ten of us to an agonizing and shameful death. Through the eyes of patients and their families we discover the inherent humanity that empowers the best of us to care for those beyond cure.. This is an intimate, hopeful and life-affirming story of living well and dying better, advocating for making the most of every moment in our life before death.. Filmed in USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Singapore, Georgia, Hong Kong, China, Uganda and India..
- Notes:
- In Process Record.
- Title from title frames.
- Film
- Originally produced by Moonshine Agency in 2012.
- OCLC:
- 956908194
- Publisher Number:
- 1231440 Kanopy
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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