Agency - English program:.Atlantic Centre.

Writer, Tim Wilson ; director, Tim Wilson ; producer, Annette Clarke ; editor, Hannele Halm ; cinematography, Tim Wilson ; sound recordist, Alex Salter, Ao Loo, Kate Kechnie, Tim Wilson ; sound editor, Lorraine Clarke ; original music, Nance Ackerman, Jamie Alexander Alcorn ; consultant, Barry Stevens, Christopher Lowry, Manfred Becker ; re-recording, Jean Paul Vialard ; executive producer, Kent Martin.

Recorded 2008.

In his daytime job as leader of a palliative care counselling team at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, Stephen Jenkinson has been at the death bed of well over a thousand people. What he sees over and over, he says, is "a wretched anxiety and an existential terror" even when there is no pain. And he indicts the practice of palliative care itself, based as it is mostly on pain and symptom management, for a disastrous depletion of meaning. Thoroughly, if unconventionally prepared, Jenkinson (Harvard Divinity graduate, social worker, sculptor, author, blues musician and storyteller) has now made it his life's mission to change the way we die - to turn the act of dying from denial and resistance into an essential part of life. Griefwalker follows the stories of three dying people and their end of life encounters with Jenkinson.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).