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1989

NEAR DEATH

Documentary
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NEAR DEATH is a film about the Medical Intensive Care Unit at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The film is concerned with how people face death. More specifically the film presents 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.

Director: Frederick Wiseman
Runtime: 346 minutes
Budget: $0
Box Office: $0
Vote Average: 70

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