"They gave her a space to reflect." The provocative headline in the New Yorker asks the question: "What Is It Like to Be Dying?" It's a headline for an 11-minute short film titled Documenting Death, made by New Yorker video producer Sara Joe Wolansky. The heartbreaking yet uplifting film is about the story of Kim Acquaviva and her wife, Kathy Brandt, who died of cancer in 2019. As they began to realize Brandt's health was in decline, they decided to document and share publicly their final days together (on social media via @kimacquaviva). This short film recaps everything and shares their social media posts and more. It's a tragic story to hear about, but they felt it was important to document anyway. "'In a culture where we don’t share almost anything around illness and death,' Acquaviva says in the film, 'the only way to counter that is for some people to share a little bit more than is probably appropriate.' The goal, she says, was to push back against the stigma associated with death and dying." There's something so moving and illuminating about it. ›››
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