Extremis

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Oaklee D @ODie63 Oct 12, 2024 A short documentary that pulls the curtain back on end of life care. Must watch. See more Wolfgang G @RT51462348 Dec 16, 2023 Extremis ist eine Kurz-Dokumentarfilm von Dan Krauss (Regie)... Ein Dokumentarfilm über Ärzte, Patienten und deren Familien bei ihren Entscheidungen auf der Intensivstation… Ein Blick auf die Sterbebegleitung, wie sie wirklich ist… See more Oct 8, 2020 For Netflix (or today's documentary) standards: very short, very specific. But can you really fault them? It's ~20 minutes of peeking behind the curtain of end-of-life decisions in a hospital, so well filmed that I had to check to make sure this wasn't a fictional account. The music and tone was fairly somber throughout, and the opinions of the people were varied. Some people got more treatment than others, which is just the nature of the case here. We got a grand total of maybe 60 seconds of a 38-year-old new grandmother. We got maybe 90 seconds of a homeless man. We see some religious folk with conflicting desires about trusting the will of God in death versus wanting to give their loved ones a fighting chance at staying alive and being miraculously healed. On the other side of things, it is a bit unsettling that the doctors sometimes seem to take such a (for lack of better description) careless attitude towards the sick and dying. By the end, I was glad I watched it, and I was glad it was only ~20 minutes. It was sad enough as it was, and drawing it out would either make it even sadder or make it... well, drawn out. See more Jul 26, 2020 If you want to watch a movie that makes Awakenings look like the funniest comedy you've ever seen, then this movie is for you. It is 100000000000000000000000000000000000% torture. I don't even think that's kind enough. It was the most miserable movie I have ever seen, period. I'm not trying to be a karen here... I'm just saying. To say it's painful, is like saying the pain endured by the characters in Hellraiser was akin to eating am ice cream Sunday. I wish there were more profoundly painful words to describe this movie. If you've lost someone close, NOT THE MOVIE FOR YOU. See more Oct 8, 2019 Thank you Netflix. I could feel the horror and pain every second watching it. It is a highly sensitive subject and being able to do justice from the patient's point of view in 20 odd minutes is a great achievement. Would have loved to see in detail the roller coaster of emotions and judgements doctors go through too. See more Jun 20, 2017 I didn't cry but I felt sadness for the families! I'm upset with why why would anyone take the breathing tubes out of a woman who is talking perfectly and she says she doesn't want to die at 38. The fact that she's speaking , conscious and aware of everything going on!! Why in the world would you put a family through that awful heartache! That's why I decided to write a review on this movie. I immediately felt angry , that doctors don't want people to live. I hope someone else felt this also. See more Read all reviews

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