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Catalogue Number: NFB528414
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Wolf Koenig, Andy Thomson
Directors: Annie O'Donoghue
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Fiction, Health and Medicine, Religious Studies, Seniors, Women's Studies
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1985
Running Time: 12:45
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Discussions in Bioethics: The Old Person's Friend - DVD
Catalogue Number: NFB528414
Producer: National Film Board Of Canada
Producers: Wolf Koenig, Andy Thomson
Directors: Annie O'Donoghue
Producing Agencies: National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subject: Fiction, Health and Medicine, Religious Studies, Seniors, Women's Studies
Language: English
Country Of Origin: Canada
Copyright Year: 1985
Running Time: 12:45
Click here for pricing
One of a series of short, open-ended dramas designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. An elderly woman, bedridden and with a history of strokes, refuses medical attention and creates a dilemma for the hospital's staff. Should she be allowed to die as she wishes or should everything possible be done to preserve life?