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202449 minPG-13documentary

family-dynamics mental-health ethics

Facing the Unthinkable: Stories From the Children's Cancer Ward

202449 minPG-13documentary

Conflicting pressures arise in children's cancer wards as terminally ill patients, parents, and medical staff navigate the rights of minors to refuse treatment.

family-dynamics mental-health ethics

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Facing the Unthinkable: Stories From the Children's Cancer Ward

2024• 49 minPG-13

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Conflicting pressures arise in children's cancer wards as terminally ill patients, parents, and medical staff navigate the rights of minors to refuse treatment.

Synopsis

When a child gets cancer, it rouses every defence imaginable in parents. They often go to any length to keep their child alive. But what if the child wants to stop treatment? Should they listen to them even if it means letting them die? This intimate documentary examines the conflicting pressures and interests of children, their parents, and medical staff about the rights of terminally ill children to end treatment.

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