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Last Flight Home
Fifteen days to say everything you never said. Watch it, then call your dad.
Who it's for
The film shows anticipatory grief as it happens: a family laughing, crying and saying what needs saying before a death, which can give viewers permission to have those conversations with their own dying relatives.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Last Flight Home is a 2022 documentary, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, in which filmmaker Ondi Timoner records the final 15 days of her father Eli Timoner, founder of Air Florida, who chose medical aid in dying under California's End of Life Option Act.
Where to find it
MTV Documentary Films release (US); rent or buy on major digital stores. Streaming availability rotates; check JustWatch.
Before you start
Heads up: A parent's medically assisted death.
Age: Not verified (suggested 16+)
Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 3
