He dies in the end. It is based on a true story and in the end he has them remove his catheter and trach and he dies about 30 hours later only taking some pain meds. It was amazingly drawn out and I felt it was way overblown. Just refuse treatment and that is the typical result for most of us. In real life. Of course, that type of renal failure is an agonizing death. You do know that most of us can "end it all" without all that drama. I think the movie wants the viewer to decide if he committed suicide or not? I personally feel he made a deal with an art dealer because an artists death can ramp up the value of their work. I guess he never saw, "the other side of the mountain".
________________________________ From: Lori Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:33:03 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] Whose Life Is It Anyway?_Movie The movie Whose Life Is It Anyway is about a guy who gets into an accident the very first thing in the movie. He ends up being a C4 quadriplegic and the rest of the movie is his experience in the hospital and because he has no family and because his lifelong career was being a sculptor (using his hands) he decided that it was his life and that he did not want to go on. So after a movie full of his hospital experiences and lighthearted comedy with him and the staff -- he finally decides that he's still does not want to live and so he gets together with an attorney to go against the hospital staff and whether he is "depressed" or not to make such a decision so early on after the injury, etc. etc.. BUT the ending left me hanging and I was wondering if anyone else has seen this and what they think about the ending? Lori On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Danny Hearn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I DON'T RECALL THIS MOVIE, BUT I DID LIKE A 1990 MOVIE WITH RICHARD DREYFUSS CALLED, ONCE AROUND. IT SEEMED LIKE WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN REAL LIFE, AND WAS REAL GOOD BUT ALSO A SAD ENDING. DAN H. --- On Mon, 11/17/08, Lori Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Lori Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [QUAD-L] Whose Life Is It Anyway?_Movie To: [email protected] Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 2:45 PM For whatever reason, after all these 29 years, and never had the opportunity to watch the movie Whose Life Is It Anyway with Richard Dreyfuss. Well, I had the chance to watch it a few days ago but was very disappointed with the ending. For those who have seen it---did it come across to you as just leaving it hanging at the end? Not knowing exactly telling the viewer what happened? Lori -- Lori C4/5 complete quad, 27 years post Tucson, AZ
