Change Your Image
dianahershey
Reviews
Stopping for Death: The Nurses of Wells House Hospice (2013)
An amazing revisiting
I must confess my review is entirely biased, having lived this film day in and day out for the year that was taken to film it. The people here, of course, are not actors. They are real people who are dying, and not all of them are dying well. And these are the real people, real nurses who interacted with them night and day until they came to the end of their days. This film made me laugh, remembering the crazy way we learned to cope with living with dying; and it made me cry, remembering the people we accompanied throughout this time, on the most sacred of journeys. My patients have become my teachers, and what I have learned, is there is opportunity to grow at the end of life. This film is worth while, and the work is some of the most worthwhile work I have had the privilege to be a part of. Please watch, please learn, and please take away a gratefulness for life.