Even if it were all staged, Exit: The Right to Die would be a profound and moving experience.
Exit: The Right to Die (2006)
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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:8
Rotten:1
Average Rating:6.9/10
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: This powerful documentary focuses on a Swiss organization that helps the terminally ill prepare themselves for assisted suicide, which is legal in that country. Rather than being bleak or... This powerful documentary focuses on a Swiss organization that helps the terminally ill prepare themselves for assisted suicide, which is legal in that country. Rather than being bleak or depressing, the film focuses on the uplifting and freeing aspects of men and women taking control of their own deaths. Focusing on both the clients and the volunteers who struggle to assist them as best they can, EXIT is a fascinating examination of life, death, and choice. [More]
Director: Fernand Melgar
Director: Fernand Melgar
Producer: Florence Adam
Reviews for Exit: The Right to Die
If the film’s lack of emotionalism deprives it of dramatic energy, it also forces viewers to react to a highly charged issue intellectually and on the merits, rather than out of manipulated passion.
It's not the kind of documentary that leaves you feeling like you've only heard one side of the debate, that certain unsettling truths have been tactically avoided.
This earnest documentary about assisted suicide plays like a stodgy promotional film for the Swiss organization Exit A.D.M.D., which helps terminally ill patients end their own lives.
[Exit] makes a strong implicit case for a cause supported by a growing number of Americans.
No one here gets out alive, as Jim Morrison put it before the End, though in Switzerland one at least has the chance of booking a smoother passage from insufferable pain to whatever comes next.
For our information, Fernand Melgar's Exit attempts to dispel misconceptions surrounding euthanasia.
A talky but vivid documentary exhibiting the work ofan organization in Switzerland that helps people die,i.e. assisted suicide.
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