At the beginning of film Sarah experiences integrity as she begins to face the ending of her life. She is satisfied with her marriage, children, and her overall life experiences. She expresses an acceptance of “being ready to go”. As the film continues on though, Sarah battles between integrity and despair as her days are numbered. Sarah at one point of the film expresses, “I wish knew what it was all about”, which displays her struggle between integrity and despair. To be quite honest I do not know if Sarah finally achieves integrity before her passing, but it was apparent that it was a daily struggle. Throughout the film it is evident in Sarah several stages of the Kubler-Ross model on dying. …show more content…
As previously mentioned, in the beginning of the film Sarah expresses integrity, but she is also expressing acceptance of her death. As the film continues Sarah embarks on an internal battle about whether she is truly accepting her death, and the process does become trying for herself and her family to witness, especially for her daughter Kaye who becomes the main caregiver for her mother. As Sarah’s health declines she becomes in denial and at moments expresses anger to Kaye, her daughter. I believe towards the end Sarah does achieve acceptance of her death, which allows her to pass comfortable and at peace. Kaye, Sarah’s daughter, has taken on the role as caregiver. During the video, Kaye is in anticipatory grief, she knows she does not have a lot time with her mother, but she does her best to provide care and stability to make her mother as comfortable as she possibly can. Like most caregivers, who are family members, taking care of her mother has taken a toll on Kaye, as her mother symptoms progress it becomes more stress inducing and emotional for Kaye to care for her mother. Kaye becomes more aware that she attends to her mother, but in mind the person she is caring for is not her mother. Kaye does receive help from in-care caregivers and husband, but her siblings deem themselves unable to aid in caregiving for their mother stating it would “destroy their marriages.” Kaye says there were three things her mother expressed: to always be clean, to never be put in a nursing home, and to not lose her memory. She expresses a sense of failure, as these three things happen, she eventually has to place Sarah in a home because she is no longer