TITLE:
Beyond the Suffering —Documenting Human Death and Dying
AUTHORS:
Eliane Brígida Morais Falcão, Fernando Lefevre
KEYWORDS:
Documentary, Death and Dying, Death and Suffering, Art and Representation, Medical Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.13,
July
25,
2014
ABSTRACT: This paper presents
the development of and reactions to a documentary featuring the perceptions
that doctors and medical students have about human death and dying. What stands
out most overall is the relationship between human death and suffering. The
underlying purpose of the documentary is to provide a venue/moment in which to
prompt viewers to reflect on human death and dying, and to present a vision of
education as a process whereby alterities converge and ideally generate a
relationship of enchantment. To accomplish this, the film relied as heavily on
iconicity as it did on opportunities to record conversations and face-to-face
interactions.