Netflix's first foray into short documentary, it's raw insight that can be rough for anyone who has been in similar shoes or spent any time facing dire choices in a hospital.

It's tough, but there are moments of human truth in there that are quite beautiful too.

I think that there are some places that cameras just don't belong - and an intensive care unit that's home to a couple of terminally ill patients is just one of them. To my mind, it doesn't matter if it gives us an "insight" into some of the appallingly difficult ethical dilemmas faced by families and clinicians because any such access can only serve to reinforce what we already believe about people's right to choose their own exit strategy. I think it's fair to say that most governments - even societies in general - don't trust their individual citizens with such momentous decisions, yet when you watch features like this that do - as one contributor reflects - look like a form of torture, you wonder why we don't put the life cart before the horse and insist that people make living wills early enough in their lives that stipulate their own minimum standards for living; their own acceptable quality of life - and if these are not met for whatever reason then the question is not so much about assisted dying as one of unassisted living. Of letting nature take it's course in as pain-free a fashion as possible. The medical profession cannot do right for doing wrong. Questions are bound to be asked about familial motivations: love, comfort and/or even expectations (in the Dickensian sense of the word) yet what we see here seems to illustrate so clearly how little actual say the patien…

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