Film Screening: Death By Joy

Part of the End of the Reel film series presented by Salt Spring Hospice at the Salt Spring Public Library Program Room. 7 p.m.

Filmmaker Jim Cribb from Pender Island will be in attendance for the viewing of his film.

Death by Joy is an escorted journey to the next world. Your guide is Mary, a quirky, selfless, funny, and irrepressible fifty-five-year-old who is told she will be dead in weeks without aggressive medical intervention.  But Mary chooses to forgo that route. The physical has a time and place; what matters more to Mary is that essence—call it awareness, spirit, soul, inner being—that she believes carries into the life beyond.

This is a provocative look at a passionate journey; a tale of warmth, laughter, and music; a sharing in the fascinating visions of Mary’s travels across the “borderline.” It is an embracement of death, not steeped in sadness for what is to be lost but illuminated with the joy of what can be found.