Dying with Dignity – Film Screening at the Vancouver International Film Festival

How to Die in Oregon

7:15 pm

In one of the year’s most compelling documentaries, Peter Richardson provides an intimate, provocative and profoundly moving portrait of several terminally ill Oregonians as they decide whether to end their lives under the state’s physician-assisted dying law.

Winner: Grand Jury Prize – Documentary, Sundance 2011.

Discussion on dying with dignity

8:45 pm

Post-screening panel discussion will include Grace Pastine, the BCCLA’s Litigation Director, speaking on the BCCLA’s lawsuit to allow for the right to die with dignity in Canada.