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Near Death (1989)

1989 · Movie · 5h 58m · Documentary
Directed by Frederick Wiseman
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At the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, people face death. Sequences highlight 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.

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