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Defining Hope

An award-winning film that captures people who are weighing what matters most at fragile junctures in life, and the nurses who guide them and help carry out their decisions. The documentary follows eight patients with life-threatening illnesses as they make choices about how they want to live, how much medical technology they can accept and how their hope evolves when life is threatened.

Defining Hope

56m 47s

An award-winning film that captures people who are weighing what matters most at fragile junctures in life, and the nurses who guide them and help carry out their decisions. The documentary follows eight patients with life-threatening illnesses as they make choices about how they want to live, how much medical technology they can accept and how their hope evolves when life is threatened.

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    Defining Hope

    56m 47s

    An award-winning film that captures people who are weighing what matters most at fragile junctures in life, and the nurses who guide them and help carry out their decisions. The documentary follows eight patients with life-threatening illnesses as they make choices about how they want to live, how much medical technology they can accept and how their hope evolves when life is threatened.

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