Near Death
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- Documentary
Overview
A film about the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The film is concerned with how people face death. More specifically the film presents the complex interrelationships among patients, families, doctors, nurses, hospital staff and religious advisors as they confront the personal, ethical, medical, psychological, religious and legal issues involved in making decisions about whether or not to give life-sustaining treatment to dying patients.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- October 7, 1989
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Exit Films Inc.
- Director
- Frederick Wiseman
- Producer
- Frederick Wiseman
- Cinematography
- John Davey,Lyn Gaza,Ollie Hallowell
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0097959