While personal moments being broadcast via Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and the like occur routinely, THE LAST ECSTATIC DAYS is a life-affirming example of how sharing one’s life and exposing one’s vulnerabilities on the Internet has the potential to serve a greater good. When a young man afflicted with brain cancer begins live-streaming his death journey on social media, thousands of people around the world join him and celebrate his courage. Still, Ethan Sisser envisions more—to teach the world how to die without fear. To honor his final wish of filming his death, his doctor, Aditi Sethi, transports him to a quiet house in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. What unfolds next is rarely observed: how a community of strangers helps an unhoused man die on his own terms. THE LAST ECSTATIC DAYS reveals a man who will not let us forget him—even after he’s taken his final breath.

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Previously recorded Q&amp;A with THE LAST ECSTATIC DAYS director Scott Kirschenbaum, moderated by Kelly Horan, reporter for The Boston Globe

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