Led by the national charity Hospice UK, Hospice Care Week is about

Fighting Back: Children battle against leukemia (1980) - The Fifth Estate Passing On - Death, Dying, and End of Life Planning (full documentary). 8. Facing Death This 2010 documentary provides a unique glimpse into the Intensive Care Unit of one of New York's biggest hospitals. It follows doctors and nurses as they help families make difficult decisions about end-of-life care, such as when to pull feeding and breathing tubes and whether to perform surgeries or opt for hospice care.

From short documentaries to feature-length films, cinema has been used to examine difficult subjects and ignite conversations about our mortality. We were inspired to track down movies that explored themes related to hospice care and the end-of-life experience. We found this list of 10 movies compi. When hospice can hold space for both the practical realities and the deeper human questions, caregiver support becomes something more than instruction." A significant goal of the documentary series is to break down misconceptions about hospice, palliative and long-term care, according to Peter Murphy Lewis, filmmaker and host of the documentary.