During three Thursdays in October, the Right to Die with Dignity (DMD) Asturias in collaboration with Cines Embajadores Foncalada de Oviedo organized the screening and subsequent discussion of three emblematic and award-winning films on the topic, Amor the Michael Haneke, The Barbarian Invasions of Denys Arcand and we finish with Truman by Cesc Gay.
After the screenings, which were attended by an average of between 34 and 42 spectators, there was a colloquium in which the DMD activists They responded and shared concerns, emotions, tears, doubts and many certainties about the end of life and the laws that today one day they can provide us with a “dignified death.”
We provide information on how to join DMD, living will, rights at the end of life, some prior instructions documents. At the colloquium of the last session we were fortunate to have Benjamin Rivayaprofessor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Oviedo, expert in cinema and human rights, made a brilliant tour of the three films of the cycle and others that We will see again with another perspective, as Million Dollar Baby (2004), Johnny took his rifle (1971) o The greatest show in the world (1952). Benjamín Rivaya listened with great interest to situations that our colleague said Cello Camblor: euthanasia from living will, objection, deadlines, ignorance of the laws, self-determination of life without clinical context…
The presentation of the cycle was covered by TVE and local radio stations, We spread the poster throughout the Social Centers, the El Milan Campus, associations and social networks. A very positive experience that we appreciate and hope to repeat.
