“Somebody told me, it’s never going to end,” says Ondi Timoner, “and I’m starting to believe it.” When we speak, it’s been over 18 months since Timoner flew to Park City for the Sundance premiere o…
Although it swirled in the mix, the film didn’t wind up making the Oscar shortlist, which was clearly a disappointment. “But when we didn’t make the nomination — which, apparently, we, anecdotally, missed by not much — at that point, it was like, ‘Well, that’s the end of the journey with the distributor pushing it.’ But I realized that the real work still hadn’t been done — the job of getting it to the people that need to see it in order to move the legislation that needs to happen.
Why not? “They don’t have it because there’s such a stigma around talking about dying,” she says flatly. “We’re all so mortified — no pun intended — to talk or even think about it. And it’s really very, very sad. But if we can be inspired to think about it just a little bit, and to plan for the inevitable just a little bit — even if we’re not going to choose medical aid in dying for ourselves — it’s possible to have a good death.
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