Results for Characters Obliquely Confronting Their Mortality
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A deceased man’s friends and coworkers try to come up with the best way to mourn him and comfort his widow, even though it seems like she doesn’t need it.
A woman comes home dreading her grandmother's funeral, but she finds that moments of shared sorrow allow families to come together and celebrate life.
An old woman experiences several blackouts as she approaches death.
A man thinks about his relationship with his parents (especially his mother) as he watches them grow old. He then realizes that he is now old too.
Determined his death is approaching, a man pays a last visit to both his wife's grave and his son's ghost and tries to say goodbye.
In the days after his wife dies, an older man must confront his newly solitary life, both the good and the bad.
A young Chinese-American woman struggles to tell her dying father that her son has committed suicide.
After two of a man's acquaintances die by suicide, he goes on a hunting trip and can't stop thinking about why they wanted to die.
A woman's complicated relationship to her mother is captured in three vignettes: one from directly after her death, one from when she is still alive, and one from years after she is gone.
A man tells his life story leading up to his suicide, attempting to explain the seemingly-inescapable mental paradoxes he found himself facing in his quest to be an authentic person, which reinforced, time after time, his belief that he was a fraud.
