Sunday, July 7th 5-7pm at the shul - Come join us for an intimate film screening of The Last Ecstatic Days followed by a Q & A with Dr. Aditi Sethi (hospice physician & death doula), Brit Fleck (Community Deathcare Fellow from Yale), Rabbi Margaret, & Rabbi Paige.

The film is a powerful end-of-life chronicle that follows a young Jewish man with terminal brain cancer who began live streaming his death journey on social media in an effort to to teach the world how to die without fear. What unfolded is a story rarely glimpsed: how a community of strangers helped a young man die with grace. A sensory immersion into leaving the body, "The Last Ecstatic Days" reveals a man who will not let us forget him – even after he takes his final breath.

The Boston Globe called the film a “…courageous end-of-life chronicle, which overflows with compassion and shows us how to live mindfully while embracing curiosity about what lies beyond.”

Author Michael Pollan said, “So moving and astonishing. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Oscar-winning screenwriter David Seidler said: "After ten minutes I was ready to walk over broken glass to help this film."

Author Leonard Pickard wrote, “As no other film has, The Last Ecstatic Days shows us a more noble way of dying.”

The film has since screened at Meow Wolf (Santa Fe), the Congressional Cemetery (D.C.), the Tibet House (NYC), the Psychedelic Assembly (NYC), the LEAF Festival (AVL), the Grief & Death Festival (Istanbul), and the Elizabeth Kubler Ross México Centro (Oaxaca).

Trailer: https://youtu.be/Og4ItddToWk

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Suggested donation of $10- $25 - 100% of proceeds directly support the impact campaign of the film, The Community Deathcare Network: A first of its kind end-of-life literacy platform to expand conscious dying into mainstream medical & palliative care programs