Ummmm... I'm not sure we are talking about the same movie because they show no catheter or trach during the ENTIRE movie which I thought was odd. But perhaps, with your information below, you just started out telling the real story rather than what was in the movie that left me hanging.
I remember thinking as I was watching it -- "Boy, this guy has it easy because they apparently fused his neck (the doctor reported to the operating room doctors TO fuse his neck) and yet he could move it easily from side to side and up and down extremely and he has no tracheotomy, etc.." I thought they would at least cover that he had a urinary catheter but they did not even show that in the movie. And/or make reference to future UTIs and kidney problems for HIS right to die argument in the movie. So, in the movie, he won the right to die (and they would disconnect his dialysis, etc) but just before you see him just lying there at the end -- the doctor says to him "You might just change your mind." *Therefore*, at the end, I did not know if he died or he was laying there waiting for the super problems to begin from disconnecting the dialysis and discontinuing medications, etc. and then changing his mind. Having said what you said and the information you gave -- where did you get the information on exactly what happened? Did you read the book or??? Lori On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 1:01 PM, John S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- Lori C4/5 complete quad, 27 years post Tucson, AZ
