Dick Johnson is Dead Faces Death Squarely in the Face in an Entertaining Format
Click here for Dick Johnson is Dead on Netflix, is the funniest movie that I have seen this year. It also happens to be the best movie about death among the four that I am reviewing here and so it is at the top of this list reviewing documentaries about death and dying. Mr. Johnson is a very successful retired psychologist with a loving family who is fearlessly facing his own impending natural demise. I am no longer afraid of death, but just like Dick Johnson, I am afraid of having my driving privileges revoked due to old age!
As I am in the final decades of my life I have come to a healthy perspective on my own eventual death and dying process. My cardiologist tells me that I have twenty years left to live and so I am living life to the fullest these days. Watching these four films about death has been a very uplifting experience for me.
Last Flight Home
Click here to watch Last Flight Home for $3.79 on Amazon Prime. This is an excellent movie about a successful executive who started his own airline. He was a very active man until his masseuse accidentally fractured his vertebrae and he suffered a debilitating stroke at age 53. He lost everything except his loving family including a daughter who made this outstanding documentary about his physician assisted termination of life pursuant to California law.
Dying to Know
Click here to rent Dying to Know for $3.99 on Amazon Prime. It is also available on Apple TV, Fandango, YouTube TV and Google Play. Timothy Leary and Ram Dass make an art form out of death and dying in this enlightening spectacle. In the 1990’s birth of the Internet I watched spell-bound as Leary broadcast his own death and dying from prostate cancer live on the web.
Obit.
Click here to watch Obit. for $3.99 on Amazon Prime. Here is your chance to go behind the scenes at the Obituary Department of the New York Times and it is well worth the price of admission.
