Confronting the issue of dying with dignity, Medical Aid in Dying, and coming to terms with terminal illness and death has become more commonplace in film and television. A new entry arrived in theaters last November and is now streaming on Netflix.

The film is beautiful to watch and Moore and Swinton do an excellent job. The film is certainly a plea to legalize Medical Aid in Dying in New York (where the film takes place) and the other states where it isn’t legal. It resonates with the message that all adults who are terminally ill, and have less than six months to live, deserve to choose the kind of death they want, when they want it.

When Jack Tuller, a man with a terminal brain tumor for 25 years, decides to end his life, his family and friends struggle to accept his decision. Jack’s best friend documents his three-year quest to die a happy man, culminating in a permanent going-away party.

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Actors Ray Romano (Andy) and Mark Duplass (Michael), depict two middle-aged men who struggle with society and relationships in general, and even more so when one of them is diagnosed with a terminal illness and chooses to access California’s End of Life Option Act and medical aid in dying.

This 2022 BBC One two-part TV series is about the friendship between Jimmy and Tully, two men who are tested when Tully is diagnosed with terminal cancer. The series presents a realistic portrayal of what can happen when two people who are very close to a terminally-ill patient have differing views about end-of-life choice, and how they try to uphold their beliefs and still support their loved one. The series is based on Andrew O’Hagan’s 2020 novel of the same name and stars Martin Compston as Jimmy and Tony Curran as Tully.

Spurred on by the death of her husband, Diane Rehm crosses the country to take an in-depth look at medical aid in dying. This balanced documentary gives voice to people on all sides of the issue, presents the facts and explores the myths surrounding medical aid in dying, now allowed in California and 10 other U.S. jurisdictions.

A linguistics professor and her family find their bonds tested when she is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Lily (Susan Sarandon) and Paul (Sam Neill) summon their loved ones to their beach house for one final gathering after Lily decides to end her long battle with ALS with Medical Aid in Dying. The couple is planning a loving weekend complete with holiday traditions, but the mood becomes strained when unresolved issues surface. Joining the collective farewell are Lily’s son in law, her lifelong friend, daughter’s partner and grandson.

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In How to Die in Oregon, filmmaker Peter Richardson gently enters the lives of the terminally ill as they consider whether – and when – to end their lives by lethal overdose. Richardson examines both sides of this complex, emotionally charged issue. What emerges is a life-affirming, staggeringly powerful portrait of what it means to die with dignity.

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Informative and yet intimate, Speaking of Dying captures the importance of individuals and groups speaking openly about all aspects of the dying process. Viewing this film will inspire and encourage you to talk to your friends, family, health care agents and medical providers about your own end of life planning, choices and wishes.

Dying Wish is a documentary about hospice patient, Dr. Michael Miller, an eighty-year old, retired surgeon with end-stage cancer who chooses to stop eating and drinking in order not to prolong his dying process, to ease his suffering and to die with grace.

2016 Oscar-Winning Documentary about Palliative Care in ICU, by Dan Krauss