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From euthanizing a sick dog to slaughtering cows for food, how do we reconcile our feelings about killing when it comes to the non-human animals around us? Ponder the moral and spiritual dimensions of the death of other animals--and what that might reveal about our views of our own mortality.

At Saint Boniface General Hospital in Manitoba two women pass each other in the corridors. Gisèle Fontaine hurries to help women in childbirth, while Louise Saurette attends the dying. Birth and death, moments of transition that involve a transformative journey, have much in common. The midwife and the chaplain offer themselves as guides on the painful and essential path of abandonment. With delicacy and restraint this film reveals the essence of...

After dying and coming back to life during surgery, a dentist discovers he has the ability to see ghosts and becomes involved in a romantic scheme between one ghost and his widow.

"Javi believes he can hear the voices of the dead and that they whisper to him their secrets, which were left unspoken in life. At his mother's house in the mountains, he is fascinated by the room in which his father died and which his mother carefully keeps locked. But, Javi also learns that the living have their secrets as well."--Container.

Death is real, it comes without warning and it cannot be escaped. An ancient source of strength and guidance, The Tibetan book of the dead remains an essential teaching originating in the spiritual cultures of the Himalayas. Narrated by Leonard Cohen, this enlightening two-part series explores the sacred text and boldly visualizes the afterlife according to its profound wisdom.

Allan King captures the last few months of the lives of five terminally ill cancer patients at Toronto Grace Health Care Center. Watch as they laugh, cry, and contemplate the many issues that comes with certain death.

Charlie Silvercloud III's father & grandfather were both killed by milk trucks on their 25th birthdays. Charlie is about to turn 25. He prepares for his fate until he meets a girl who won't let him die in peace.

George is a blue-collar American with a special connection to the afterlife dating from his childhood. French journalist Marie has a near-death experience that shakes her reality. When London schoolboy Marcus loses the person closest to him, he desperately needs answers. Each seeking the truth, their lives will intersect, forever changed by what they believe might, or must, exist in the hereafter.

Wes is 25 years old and is a disaffected, clock-punching drone. His boss chews him out hourly, his girlfriend ignores him routinely, and his life plods on in interminable boredom and routine. Everyone knows Wes will amount to nothing, that is until he meets the sexy woman named Fox, and then everything changes. Wes' estranged father is murdered, and the deadly Fox recruits him into The Fraternity, a secret society that trains him to avenge his father's...

Thanks to the support of a loving dog that he helps nurse back to health, an aspiring young artist never gives up hope. All this despite being subjected to all sorts of terrible hardships.