LIFE AFTER Trailer

LIFE AFTER Trailer - official movie trailer HD

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00:00Elizabeth Bouvet is asking for help.

00:05Trapped in a useless body, she says she deserves the right to die quietly.

00:11And what was your purpose in being admitted to her beside her in the hospital?

00:15I'll tell you, start myself to death.

00:19The more I researched, the more I began to think that people will stay alive.

00:39Requests for medical assistance in dying are increasing across the country.

00:44We're beginning to hear more stories about people feeling it's their only recourse from excruciating circumstances.

00:55I didn't want to really end my life, but it really just came down to a matter of funding at that point.

01:03The health system is basically going to tell you, you should kill yourself, because that's the cheapest option.

01:14Many people are afraid of disability. They've never had to interact with it before.

01:18The decision makers are really ruining our chances of surviving.

01:26I feel that this film will be dismissed as cynicism.

01:34But the death of disabled people has been justified for so long.

01:40Doctors encouraged me to pull the plug.

01:48This film is not about suicide.

01:52It's about the phenomenon that leaves disabled people desperate to find their place in the world that perpetually rejects them.

02:02I need to find her. There are too many unanswered questions.