Brooklyn-based documentarians Carter Oakley and Heather Hogan have made a career of focusing on end-of-life issues. As individuals, they themselves have witnessed the process with loved ones and through Hogan’s work as a death doula. The reality is that sometimes it went well, sometimes it didn’t. These experiences fostered an interest in stories where the individual has some manner of control over the situation, and this led them to Lynda Bluestein. She had made headlines when she launched a lawsuit against the state of Vermont to gain access to their Death With Dignity law, Act 39. Upon receiving a terminal cancer diagnosis, Bluestein, a dynamic and admirably stubborn individual, had no doubt in her mind that she wanted to die on her own terms. But...
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