Discussion(M3)

Watch one of these films and  then discuss anyone of these “dying and death” representations as  presented in movies or plays such as:

• Bringing Out the Dead
• Angela’s Ashes
• Beaches
• Philadelphia
• Terms of Endearment
• Wit
• Evan Mayday’s Good Death

Address the following questions if pertinent to the film you watched:

• What were the causes of death?
• Where did people die?
• Who cared for the dying?
• Who was present at the time of death?
• How did the significant other person respond?
• How did the community respond?
• What expectations or beliefs were associated with dying and death?
• How did people cope with loss?

Envision  yourself as one of the characters in the film, and, according to their  personal or professional (eg. the nurse in: “WIT”) expectations about  death:

• Dying well
• Bad death
• Good death
• Sad death