2024-10-30 07:58:00
How do we choose to say “yes”? While your child’s heart is still beating, how do you accept having his organs removed? Already overwhelmed by unbearable pain and immersed in a state of total amazement, the relatives of the 3,000 people who donate their organs every year in France after their death were faced with these questions. Because if French law says that anyone is an organ donor unless they have opted out during their lifetime, the final decision lies with the families, the living memory of which will accompany them forever.
In an extremely sensitive documentary, Katia Chapoutier hands them her microphone. They who were simultaneously asked to accept the death of a loved one and the removal of his or her organs so that one, or even more, patients could survive. “But at that moment you only think about your son” she tearfully remembers Alexis’ father, killed at the age of 20 in a car accident. After a brief conversation during which his son expressed his desire to donate his organs, he and his wife Catherine agreed.
Talk about it “before fate reaches us”
This was collected by the carers who, every time, must demonstrate infinite delicacy. There they are trained, especially during the scenes that Katia Chapoutier was able to film. And how reassuring it is to see them in action. They are the essential link in a chain of solidarity that connects donors and their families to recipients. In their voice, even in this fictitious exercise, there is the empathy that must be communicated to the former and the urgency of the situation that the latter are going through.
The director only needs 52 minutes to say everything that matters. The importance of talking about organ donation “before destiny reaches us”, underlines Caterina; essential training for caregivers; the need for dialogue between donor families and transplant recipients. Heavy subjects for a brilliant result.
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