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NEEDED to be made, as simple as that


This was a -necessary- response to ALL the Hollywood films ever made to portray terminal illness, the harmful message they give to people. Hollywood is supposedly detached from religion according to Americans at least, well, many messages given by Hollywood films about death are in total alignment with the evangelicals and Christian's messages. Even when liberal speak and think about seethe, they co-opt Christian ideas about it.
Basin said that cinema shows a world more in tune with our desires, that too manifest in Hwood films about death. It always portray a couple w/ a member dying, a family w/ a member dying--never does it try to portray death as it is. It even will soften the blow of loss by letting the other character left alone to also slip off w/ his/her lover at the end, in a random car wreck etc.
I've had someone very close have a serious chronic illness, one that doesn't kill directly (it's listed as nonmalignant) but kills over years as it causes cancer level pain w/o damaging the body quickly enough. It's name is Chiari malformation.
Even with a non malignant illness-- ive witnessed as fast friends disappear, never to be heard off, and even worse family that was very close that now stays away, unwillingly to be touched by any bit of the old world b4 modern life --the one filled with un-hide-able death.
To die in the modern wordless is the most alienating experiences one can go through-- in human experience, in it's history, never have the dying been treated w/ such heartlessness. We have lost the ritual, and we all NEED to be extremely self focused -just- to survive. We have lost the oneness of those who lived outside of cities. We cannot spare the extra stress of seeing one death in it's fullness, to be with someone as they die. We threaten our careers which leave little room for the most important act in the species-BIRTH.
This film made an impact on me, we used to die with ritual, now more than ever b4 die alone.
Even chronic illness (non-communicative) of my close friend scares most off, and silences the brave ones. They are in a world were this is hidden, in the workplace where the disabled are carted off except for rare cases.
I don't have any proposed solution, all I can do is say sad, that this is what ALL the machines and tech that are supposed to be saving our time are doing to our -humanity- Sad sad sad.....................

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