Joy is...Liberation.
Pola Rapaport is a writer, director, and editor of many award-winning films, as well as the producer of art-related video content, and a university instructor. I came across her work with the premiere of her new documentary Addicted to Life, a paradoxical, intimate, vulnerable and, ultimately, inspirational documentary about the Belgian Paralympic champion Marieke Vervoort who takes control of her ailing health to request medical aid-in-dying. The film charts the dramatic events of Vervoot’s final inspirational three years, during which her acceptance of death becomes an affirmation of life. It is an extraordinary piece of storytelling that demystifies one of the most controversial issues of our time and captures the willpower, strength and spirit of Marieke as she fights for her right, not to die, but to truly live.
This is a conversation about paradox. It's about how we die but, more than that, about how we live, indeed, how we choose to die and therefore how we choose to live. It is about how our first greeting can be our farewell, about how we come together and how we part. It is about pain and about grace. It is about the importance of conversation and the power of the pause, about the places that words cannot go. It is about witnessing and about participation, about what it is to pay attention in a world that would rather look away. It is a conversation about integrity and holding fast but also, ultimately, about what it is to let go.
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