The Last Ecstatic Days: A Virtual Screening and Q&A
Ethan Sisser, a young man with terminal brain cancer, sits alone in his hospital room. When he starts livestreaming his death journey on social media, thousands of people around the world join to celebrate his courage. Still, Ethan envisions more – to teach the world how to die without fear. To do that, he needs to film his death. Honoring Ethan's wish, his doctor Aditi Sethi transports him to an idyllic house in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. What unfolds next is a story rarely glimpsed: how a community of strangers helps a young man die with grace. A sensory immersion into leaving the body, The Last Ecstatic Days reveals a man who will not let us forget him – even after he’s taken his final breath.
Link to trailer here.
Zoom link to post-screening discussion and Q&A here.
Panel Discussion Speakers
- Scott Kirschenbaum, Director of The Last Ecstatic Days
- Aditi Sethi, Executive Director, Center for Conscious Living and Dying and one of the film’s subjects
Facilitated by Ned Buskirk, Executive Director, You're Going to Die and Andrew Ingall, Senior Programmer of Reimagine.
Run of Event:
- Guests log-in on Kinema to join screening (link provided upon registration)
- Welcome
- The Last Ecstatic Days screening on Kinema platform begins. The film’s running time is 1 hour and 13 min.
- Discussion and Q&A begins on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84067844743
- Event concludes
Center for Conscious Living & Dying (CCLD)
CCLD nurtures a community that celebrates the sacred wholeness of the human spirit, honors diversity in all forms, and embraces the final season of life. The mission is to create a community that embodies living a meaningful life through inner exploration and growth, service, and community-supported end-of-life care.
https://www.thelastecstaticdaysmovie.com/
Reimagine
Reimagine is a nonprofit organization catalyzing a uniquely powerful community–people of different backgrounds, ages, races, and faiths (and no faith) coming together in the hopes of healing ourselves and the world. We specifically support each other in facing adversity, loss, and mortality and–at our own pace– actively channeling life's biggest challenges into meaningful action and growth.
YG2D
YG2D or You're Going To Die is a 501(c)3 nonprofit bringing diverse communities creatively into the conversation of grief, loss, & our shared mortality, inspiring a more connected & meaningful experience of being alive, w/a weekly podcast, open mics, concerts, workshops, & prison, hospice, & cancer patient programs.
