Near Death
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.
Near Death
October 7, 1989
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Directing
Frederick Wiseman
Director
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Frederick Wiseman
Producer
Nancy Simonian
Production Assistant
Richard Gliklich
Production Assistant
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Ollie Hallowell
Director of Photography
Lyn Gaza
Director of Photography
John Davey
Director of Photography
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Frederick Wiseman
Editor
Victoria Garvin Davis
Assistant Editor