FILM Screening By Hospice To Put Issues Around Death Into FocusARDGOWAN Hospice is screening award-winning documentary Island which follows four individuals in the year in which their lives will end.
The event at Greenock Waterfront Cinema on Thursday 16 May at 10am is being held as part of nationwide Dying Matters Awareness Week and Scottish campaign Good Death Week.
The screening will be followed by a question-and-answer session with Ardgowan Hospice staff allowing the audience an opportunity to raise questions about death, dying and bereavement.
The event is free and open to all however tickets must booked via the hospice website.
Island was filmed over 12 months among patients and staff at the Earl Mountbatten Hospice on the Isle of Wight, and is described as a life-affirming reflection on the phenomena of dying.
The theme for this year’s Dying Matters campaign is Are We Ready?, and looks at the practical and emotional steps we all need to take to be ready for the end of our lives.
Research shows that only about a third of people have written a will or thought about their funeral, and even fewer have thought about their end-of-life care, or made a decision about organ donation.
