Exerpted from the film's website: Stephen Jenkinson has been called the Angel of Death. Whether sitting at the bedside of a dying woman, or speaking to clinicians dedicated to delaying death, Jenkinson bears a message that most do not want to hear: that death is not something to be denied or avoided but "befriended." A Harvard-trained theologian who has traveled far from Western religion, Jenkinson says there is a "hole inside most of us and it's in the approximate shape of a soul." Griefwalker is filmmaker Tim Wilson's extraordinary portrait of his friend Jenkinson and his work with the dying. The film weaves an illuminating picture of a remarkable man, and leaves us with a deeper understanding of how our deaths should be held as "a prized possession."
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