If we really believed that today was our last day, how would we live it? And, how do we prepare to die peacefully? Through heartfelt conversations from kitchen tables to cemeteries, this documentary reveals the power of love and the remarkable things one can accomplish when living each day as if it was your last.
Returning to these three families from the documentaries STORIES OF LUPUS and FOR LIFE, LIVING THROUGH DYING looks intimately at death, a topic we don’t like to talk about, but which ultimately impacts everyone. Out of the original subjects interviewed in the first two films, two single moms, Michelle and Sharon, have died. Brian, another of the original subjects, has a wife and two children, and is now undergoing close medical attention to preserve his kidney that was transplanted in 2000.
LIVING THROUGH DYING goes into the lives of children who were devoted to taking care of parents with a chronic illness, as well as parents who withstood the pain of surviving their children and communities who were inspired and transformed by people who knew their life spans were shorter than others.

From Michelle’s children writing love messages on helium balloons to her in the cemetery to Sharon’s founding of an African-centered charter school, this poignant documentary talks openly with children, parents and community about coping with death.