00:02Elizabeth Bouvet is asking for help.
00:06Trapped in a useless body,
00:08she says she deserves the right to die quietly.
00:11And what was your purpose in being admitted to her
00:14beside her in the hospital?
00:22The more I researched,
00:25the more I began to think
00:28that we were still alive.
00:39Requests for medical assistance in dying
00:42are increasing across the country.
00:44We're beginning to hear more stories
00:46about people feeling it's their only recourse
00:49from excruciating circumstances.
00:55I didn't want to really end my life,
00:58but it really just came down to a matter of funding
01:01at that point.
01:03The health system is basically going to tell you
01:06you should kill yourself
01:07because that's the cheapest option.
01:13Many people are afraid of disability.
01:16They've never had to interact with it before.
01:18The decision makers are really ruining
01:20our chances of surviving.
01:25I feel that this film will be dismissed as cynicism.
01:33But the death of disabled people
01:36has been justified for so long.
01:40Doctors encouraged me to pull the plug.
01:47This film is not about suicide.
01:52It's about the phenomenon
01:53that leaves disabled people desperate
01:56to find their place in the world
01:59that perpetually rejects them.
02:10I need to find her.
02:12There are too many unanswered questions.
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