The highly-praised documentary film “The Last Ecstatic Days” will be screened free of charge at the Cine Lago on Tuesday, November 7 and Wednesday, November 8, at 3 p.m.
The screenings follow two free workshops on end-of-life themes, also to be held on November 7 and 8, 11 a.m. at the Lake Chapala Society.
Leading the workshops is Wilka Roig, the founder of the Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Foundation Central Mexico, a producer/host of Death Cafes, a transpersonal psychologist, the creator of the first green burial plot in the state of Guanajuato, and most of all, an educator with a community-based approach.
“The Last Ecstatic Days” centers on Ethan Sisser, a young man with brain cancer who became a social media influencer, inspiring thousands around the globe with his unique approach towards the dying process. When he begins live-streaming his death journey on social media, thousands of people around the world join him and celebrate his courage. Still, Ethan envisions more—to teach the world how to die without fear. To honor his final wish of filming his death, his doctor, Aditi Sethi, transports him to a quiet house in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. What unfolds next is a story that’s rarely glimpsed: how a community of strangers helps an unhoused man die on his own terms.
Roig and the film’s director, Scott Kirschenbaum, will give an introduction to the film, and host a conversation after each of the screenings.