February 15, 2012 at 7:00pm
FREE SCREENING
Director Peter Richardson and Editor Greg Snider will be present for a Q+A
As part of our new NW Documentary Film Series, we are hosting a special free screening of the award-winning locally made film, How To Die In Oregon. In 1994, Oregon became the first state to legalize physician-assisted suicide. As a result, any individual whom two physicians diagnose as having less than six months to live can lawfully request a fatal dose of barbiturate to end his or her life. Since 1994, more than 500 Oregonians have taken their mortality into their own hands. In How to Die in Oregon, filmmaker Peter Richardson gently enters the lives of the terminally ill as they consider whether – and when – to end their lives by lethal overdose. Richardson examines both sides of this complex, emotionally charged issue. What emerges is a life-affirming, staggeringly powerful portrait of what it means to die with dignity.
2011 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize Winner
The NW Documentary Film Series is sponsored by The Documentary Channel and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
