Death is an absolute certainty.
America’s denial of this universal truth has become a source of personal tragedy and social crisis. Our modern healthcare system, with its remarkable technology, drugs, and specialists, is partly to blame for the delusion that a cure is always possible and dying is never an option. We rage against the end of life at all costs, often subjecting ourselves and our loved ones to insufferable deaths marred by a litany of costly, painful — even violent — medical treatments. Our “never say die” American mantra has inspired a culture whose faith in science has outpaced its reverence for reason and humanity. The time has come for us do better.
Our goal is to break the taboo and secrecy surrounding death, honestly revealing how Americans die and the end-of-life choices available to them. We will expose the shocking toll our system takes on patients and their families, and explore the anguish healthcare workers endure when treating the terminally ill with futile procedures. While modern medicine has succeeded in lengthening our lives, we must consider whether those final days are spent really living, or merely dying.
Filmed in Detroit, a uniquely American city that has seen both dizzying growth and ruinous decline, Never Say Die will follow a new breed of palliative care experts and their patients as they confront the American healthcare system — and their own mortality.
This will be a documentary that transforms public perception, but only if you join us. Together we can begin to address the crisis surrounding dying in America and ignite the social resolve needed to transform this national tragedy into a movement of hope.
Our goal is to break the taboo and secrecy surrounding death, honestly revealing how Americans die and the end-of-life choices available to them. We will expose the shocking toll our system takes on patients and their families, and explore the anguish healthcare workers endure when treating the terminally ill with futile procedures. While modern medicine has succeeded in lengthening our lives, we must consider whether those final days are spent really living, or merely dying.
Filmed in Detroit, a uniquely American city that has seen both dizzying growth and ruinous decline, Never Say Die will follow a new breed of palliative care experts and their patients as they confront the American healthcare system — and their own mortality.
This will be a documentary that transforms public perception, but only if you join us. Together we can begin to address the crisis surrounding dying in America and ignite the social resolve needed to transform this national tragedy into a movement of hope.
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