Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America

Alternate Endings ignores the cultures whose attitudes toward and traditions of death have long been "alternative." After all, humans have been dying at home and caring for their own dead for millennia.

There isn't an ounce of exploitation to be had in the hour that we spend with the six families.

Six creative ways dying people and their families are taking control of their deaths and the disposal of their remains.

As this moving and absorbing documentary shows, Americans are changing end-of-life traditions in all kinds of new ways.