We discuss:

The reality of hospice care

Michelle Aaron’s book Death and the Moving Image (Edinburgh University Press)

Familial, cultural, and cinematic strategies for coping with grief

The place of children in a household of grief-stricken adults

Grief management in a specifically Mexican cultural context

The importance of memories and especially remembering moments of laughter while facing death

Ideas of non-linear time

Spirituality as a form of healing hope

The value of ritual

The reality that family members handle death and grief in wildly different ways

The importance of communicating with children through a time of grief

The significance of names

The film’s ending and the wishes is does/does not grant

Non-dogmatic belief systems

How children can experience and express grief

The value of conversation with and among grieving family member

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