We're trying to pay it forward to other families because if you think that what you saw here was

special, none of it would have happened if dad hadn't had the ability to choose the date.

And it gave him such, as you saw, wind in his sales and such a feeling of agency and peace and hope.

And every family we've met who had a loved one who had the medical aid and

dying option and took it, all of them have healing closure. They all were able to come and be there.

Kids were able to come home. You know, it's just, it's something that if a person is dying

anyway, they should really have that right.

Hello and welcome back to the Director's Cut, brought to you by the Directors Guild of America.

In this episode, Director Andi Timoner follows her father, Eli Timoner, during the 15-day waiting period before medically terminating his own life in Last Flight Home. Screened as part of the DGA's documentary series, the film catalogs

the former swashbuckling entrepreneur, now bed-ridden, as he says goodbye to those closest to him,

while they struggle to reconcile with his choice.

In addition to Last Flight Home, Tumoner's other directorial credits include the narrative feature Mapplethorpe and the documentaries The New Americans Gaming a Revolution, The Nature of the Beast,

and Brand a Second Coming.

Following the documentary series screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York,

Timona spoke with director Susanna Styron about Last Flight Home.

Listen on for their conversation.

At what point in your father's decline, did you realize you were going to make this film?

And can you talk a little bit about how you brought that into your family?

Sure.

So I didn't intend to make a documentary about this.

I have always intended to tell my father's story, but those are the pages you see on the

bed.

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