End Game

End Game is a look into the final stage of a few people's lives and how they and their families deal with it. I can not say I have ever seen anything like this. I remember seeing my first piano teacher of 4+ years in Hospice as a young kid and being so shocked when she passed. There are many hard decisions and acceptances along this path. Dr. Miller, a palliative care professional, maintains a unique outlook on the whole process and does his best to bring peace to those he can.

I did, however, find it hard at times to stay engaged with the stories because I felt they moved a tad too slowly. Regardless, the film is eye-opening and touching at many different moments.

While this takes you on the edge of a second hand experience of death... I know for most people, such kind of support system (both medical and family) is hard to get....

Death is a larger (more definitive) truth than birth... and it's more difficult to comprehend for those who are left behind compared to those who "experience" it,,,

While different relations may perceive it differently, the question that remains is who/what died?

Anyways... highly recommended for people of all backgrounds irrespective of age, sex/gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic background, educational status and religious/non-religious/scientific beliefs...

Wonderful job filming the reality with patients and one family in particular. The doctor talks about how he had to face grief himself in his own body, and this gave him the strength and the inspiration to help other human beings look at this huge mystery, to look at the "end (of the) game", the end of life itself. A gem of documentary showing vulnerability as the ultimate strength.

"We are wired to run away from death but dying is a part of life. " This is a story of four terminally ill patients are about to reach their destination.. who are ready to embark upon a new unknown journey that would relieve them from all the sufferings. Conversations with them, interviews with some of their families as the patients spend their final moments with them.. the candid conversations about the end of a life .. it is surely a tough watch but this short doc is a reminder of the inevitable.. as the healthy ones keep thinking about how to live by all worldly avaricious norms, the sicks just want to live ...it is made in a verite style that this bitter truth that we often brush aside would nudge you that it is going to meet you at the end of the path..

• Purvi.

I am very fresh from grieving three loses in my family. Two of those from cancer. This documentary touches on the realities of the disease and i felt some sort of relief in understanding the last moments which unfortunately i was unable to see of my own relatives.

Its very tastefully delivered and answers some questions about loss and death itself.

What a beautiful piece. Which made "The end game" seem like the start of a new journey.