About this Event
The Last Ecstatic Days is a powerful documentary about Ethan Sisser, a young man with terminal brain cancer, who begins livestreaming his death journey from his hospital room. Thousands of people around the world gather virtually to witness and celebrate his courage. But Ethan has a deeper wish: to teach the world how to die without fear.
To honor Ethan’s wish, his doctor, Dr. Aditi Sethi, brings him to an idyllic home in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Asheville, North Carolina. What unfolds is a rare and intimate portrait of how a community of strangers helps a young man die with grace. The official promotional materials describe the film as “a sensory immersion into leaving the body” and a story of a man who “will not let us forget him — even after he’s taken his final breath.”
The film is not only about death. It is about presence, courage, love, community, and what becomes possible when we stop turning away from the most human threshold of all.
After the screening, Dr. Sethi will join us for a Q&A, followed by a community conversation on the themes of the film, including conscious dying, grief, caregiving, spiritual presence, hospice care, and how facing death may teach us how to live more fully.
Dr. Aditi Sethi is a palliative care physician and the founder of Ember Light: Center for Conscious Living and Dying. After ten years supporting individuals at the end of life through hospice care, she began exploring a more holistic and community-centered approach to death and dying — one rooted in intentionality, presence, and love. Her work has helped bring to life a heart-centered model of community-supported death care, inviting us to reimagine how we accompany one another through the most tender thresholds of life.
This event is open to anyone interested in conscious dying, spirituality, grief, caregiving, hospice, end-of-life care, community, or simply living with more depth and presence.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Blank Space, 701 Haywood Road, Asheville, United States
USD 0.00
