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I was with Russell Brand at BAFTA last night...

I am name-dropping as I want as many people as possible to read this post and then go and watch one of the most moving, beautiful, emotional and important documentaries I have ever seen.

The film is called, 'Last Flight Home', it documents the last 15 days of Eli Timoner and is a stunning verité account of an amazing life and a courageous family confronting life and death.

Made by his daughter Ondi Timoner, whom Russell interviewed after the screening, the film literally had everyone in the audience moved to tears, torrents of tears.

The reason I think it is so important to watch this film, is it challenges so brilliantly and personally our society's attitudes, our legal systems and our medical structures around death and dying and actually shows us how to reconnect with the process through love, pure love.

Our Western society's death norms and practices are sadly being exported across the globe. Death has become more and more removed from life as it is monetised and industrialised. But this film, models a different way to live and die with spirituality, belief, respect and bravery. It is about family, friends, and making peace with whatever and whomever you need to before you pass.

It also honours the amazing carers, nurses and doctors who work daily, diligently with death in a system that feels broken.

But mostly this film is about life, a life well lived, a life of love.

When Eli's grandson asks him for advice about how to live, he simply replies, "Respect those you don't know and love those you do"

#beinghuman #film #love