About the film

Allyson was a hospice nurse educator. She taught people how to die well. Then she had to do it herself.

After a terminal brain cancer diagnosis, she let two filmmakers document her final 39 days. This award-winning 36-minute documentary follows her as she moves from teaching end-of-life care to living it, with her family, her friends, and her hospice colleagues beside her. She hosts her own living funeral. And she keeps talking.

It is honest, human, and often funny. This is not sad.

At 36 minutes, the film leaves room for what comes after: the conversation. It’s made for hospices, hospitals, faith communities, senior living, doula groups, libraries, and universities, and for anyone who has ever wished they could talk about death before it arrives.

Dying is hard on the living. We want to make it a little easier.

A documentary by Jason Zamer and Barry Koch of TGBeyond.