Film: For Dear Life

Part of End of the Reel film series for Hospice Month, sponsored by SS Hospice. SS Public Library. 7 p.m.

When 46-year-old theatre producer James Pollard learns he has terminal cancer, he sets out to turn his dying into a lasting final project—rallying friends and family to become involved in preserving his body after death. As macabre as this may sound, the practicality by which James approaches the inevitable offers new freedom and possibilities for dealing with death within a culture where we simply don’t talk about it.