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HI tutor please help me answer the questions for discussions below for a FILM ANALYSIS of movie EXTREMIS (NETFLIX):

 

1. THE END-OF-LIFE CONVEYOR BELT 

In the film, we learn that Gordon and Donna had discussed Donna’s aversion to breathing machines long prior to her hospitalization. Nonetheless, Donna still ends up on a breathing machine during her intensive care. 

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 

● Why do you think Donna ends up on a breathing machine? 

● What did you notice about the flow of communication regarding Donna’s preferences, prognosis, and treatment options? ● How would you have felt about this outcome in your own healthcare? 

● What would have had to have been done differently to ensure her preferences were both known and followed?

 

2. KNOWING WHAT YOU WANT 

Following the decisions made in the film, Selena lived, semi- conscious and often in pain, on machines for almost six months until she died. Since we did not know what Selena’s preferences were, we could not know whether this outcome was acceptable to her or not. 

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 

● Why do you think Selena ends up living on machines until her death? 

● What did you notice about the communication regarding Selena’s prognosis and treatment options? 

● Would this outcome be acceptable to you? 

● What would have had to be done differently to provide for an alternate outcome?

 

3. LIFE-PROLONGING TECHNOLOGY 

If Donna had agreed to be placed permanently on a breathing machine with a surgical tracheostomy, she would have stayed alive longer, weeks, maybe even months. But having watched her father and sister die from the same disease on ventilators, she was absolutely clear that she didn’t want that for herself. 

QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION 

● Under what conditions would you be willing to undergo efforts by the medical team to prolong your life at all costs? 

● The latter might include breathing machines, dialysis, feeding tubes, and living in a healthcare facility. Consider for yourself: 

○ Would it be crucial that you are eventually able to feed yourself again? 

â—‹ To recognize your family again? â—‹ To be able to speak again? â—‹ To eventually manage your own personal hygiene?

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