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Using Elizabeth Bouvia’s 1983 public fight for the right to die on her own terms as a starting point, filmmaker Reid Davenport (I Didn’t See You There, Hot Docs 2022) brings disabled voices to the fore in the discussion of assisted suicide. While the practice is intended to bring dignity and autonomy to end-of-life, Davenport highlights the growing phenomenon of disabled people who, faced with a myriad of systemic and social barriers and denied the support they need to thrive in society, are turning to assisted suicide as a way out of the suffering that is being forced on them. With Canada’s own medical assistance in dying (MAID) legislation used as a cautionary example, Life After warns against poorly structured care systems for disabled people, unchecked policies around assisted suicide, and the deadly repercussions they are having on disabled people. In a time where the value of disabled lives is once again a contested point of conversation (eye-roll), the centring of disabled perspectives could not come at a more crucial moment. Elspeth Arbow.
Content Warning: Discussions of suicide. Ableism, discussion of suicide.
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Distributor: ITVS, Independent Lens
Sales Agent: Together Films