The Detour

Duration: 13

Year Published: 1977

Creator: Phoenix Film Productions

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Dramatizes the indignities of prolonging the process of dying by artificial means from the point of view of an elderly patient in a large hospital. Shows 83-year-old Catherine Hamilton's weak, but unfaltering, rage against impersonal and demeaning care and the continued medical treatment that tries to postpone the death she is prepared to accept., Dramatization of an ill 83-year old woman's struggle to die in peace. Each time she thinks she may be able to slip away, the hospital revives her with a wonder drug or new machine.

Complete Record: Dramatizes the indignities of prolonging the process of dying by artificial means from the point of view of an elderly patient in a large hospital. Shows 83-year-old Catherine Hamilton's weak, but unfaltering, rage against impersonal and demeaning care and the continued medical treatment that tries to postpone the death she is prepared to accept., Dramatization of an ill 83-year old woman's struggle to die in peace. Each time she thinks she may be able to slip away, the hospital revives her with a wonder drug or new machine. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.