This might be one of the most important columns that I have ever written.

I wrote this, and created the accompanying podcast, because I want to help people deal with the most momentous decision that anyone can make.

In the early 1980s, I was at the very beginning of my rabbinical career. I was serving a congregation in Miami, and I visited one of our congregants in the local hospital.

His name was Eli TImoner.

My guest is Rabbi Rachel Timoner, the senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, New York. She tells the story of her father, and of the movie, "Last Flight Home," which her sister, filmmaker Ondi Timoner directed. It is a documentary about Eli TImoner’s decision that he wanted to end his life.

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