It's My Right: The Handmade Death of Herta Sturmann from crestone Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 15 min 24 sec
✓ Published: 12-Sep-2019

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My mother had congestive heart failure and decided not to submit herself to the indignities of medical intervention. When she got too weak to get out of bed, she decided to stop eating and drinking (in German it’s called Sterbefasten or Death Fast, in the US it’s called VSED – Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking). My outspoken mother insisted I film our family as we navigated this fraught process together. My brother and I cared for her round the clock during the ten days it took her