What it’s like to stand by your daughter in her
choice to die
Doctor-assisted suicide for the chronically
mentally ill is currently legal in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland,
despite being one of the most contentious points in the ongoing right-to-die
debate. Letting You Go follows one such Dutch patient,
27-year-old Sanne, who, after nearly a decade of pursuing treatments for her
chronic depression, insomnia and borderline personality disorder, has chosen to
end her suffering and pursue a planned death. While clearly shaken, Sanne’s
father has made the difficult decision to stand by his daughter’s choice,
reasoning ‘she couldn’t, and shouldn’t, do this alone’. Unflinching, honest and
humane, the Dutch director Kim Faber’s film is both a moving portrait of father
and daughter, and an intimate look at one of the most controversial medical
ethics issues of our times. The film played at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) in
2014 and AFI DOCS film festival in 2015.
Director: Kim Faber
Producers: Anna Beerstra, Randy
Vermeulen
Director of Photography:
Christian van Duuren
Editor:
Martin Gerrits
16
May 2016
What it’s like to stand by your daughter in her choice to
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