To Die Forth (2001)

This itinerant documentary film investigates: the operations and philosophies underpinning one of three world-wide Cryonic Institutes, a terminally ill Parkinson's sufferer days before her requested euthanasia in Belgium and the assisted suicide of a healthy man as a case study reflecting Switzerland's exclusive legal provision of the controversial phenomenon of 'suicide tourism.' The film dissects the classification of mental illness versus chronic angst. To Die Forth meditates on mortal anxiety and taboos surrounding death, particularly such 'unnatural' human interventions. It is a film of demonstration and questioning as opposed to a programmatic wresting of theoretical conclusions and closures.