Hospice Volunteers of Waldo County invites Greater Waldo County to a single night screening on Tuesday, Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. Post-screening, there will be a Community Conversation with Hospice and Palliative Care Physician Aditi Sethi, MD and Director of the Center for Conscious Living & Dying/Hospice Volunteers of Waldo County’s Flic Shooter. Sethi, MD’s end-of-life palliative work is featured in the film.
“The Last Ecstatic Days” focuses on a young man with terminal brain cancer (Ethan Sisser) as he sits alone in his hospital room. When Sisser starts live-streaming his death journey on social media, thousands of people around the world join to celebrate his courage. Still, he envisions more–to teach the world how to die without fear. To do that, Sisser needs to film his actual death. What unfolds next is a rarely-glimpsed perspective of how a community of strangers helps a young man die with grace.
Some of the licensing for this Independent Film Screening and Community Conversation with Sethi is made possible by community support from Belfast Coop, Vinolio and the Maine Hospice Council.
Tickets are $10, available online or at the door. A portion of each ticket benefits Hospice Volunteers of Waldo County. Though a Post-Screening Conversation can only occur in the Dreamland Auditorium; handicapped seating is available in both theatres showcasing …’Ecstatic’…. City Theatre is the more-accessible of the two theatres showing the film.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m., show at 7 p.m.
For more information visit colonialtheatre.com/showtimes/last-ecstatic-days or tinyurl.com/LastEcstaticDays
