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Discussions in Bioethics: The Old Person's Friend
198512 min 45 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Annie O'Donoghue
Production: Wolf KoenigAndy Thomson
Script: Donaleen Saul
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?
Availability
Subject categories
- Health and Medicine > BioethicsCoping with Illness and DyingSeniors
- Religion, Beliefs and Ethics > Ethics and BioethicsLife and Death
- Seniors > Health and IllnessInstitutional CareWomen
Credits
- director
- Annie O'Donoghue
- producer
- Wolf Koenig
- executive producer
- Andy Thomson
- script
- Donaleen Saul
- camera
- Zoe Dirse
- sound
- Richard Besse
- editing
- Susan Shanks
- sound editing
- Wojtek Klis
- re-recording
- Jean-Pierre Joutel
- cast
- Valda Dalton
- Louis Di Bianco
- Norah Goddard
- Kate Trotter
Awards
- International Film Screening Honorable Mention presented by the Royal Victoria Hospital in collaboration with McGill UniversityInternational Congress on Care of the Terminally
- Prizes awarded to each of the eight films in the series - Category: Health and MedicineInternational Film Festival