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Award-winning filmmaker Sue Bourne wanted to make a film about living, not dying. She set out to find people of all ages who had managed to find positives in their terminal prognosis and were making the most of the time they had left.

The twelve people in this thought-provoking and uplifting film range from their twenties to their late sixties. They speak eloquently and inspiringly about what they’ve discovered really matters in life. They smile and laugh and try not to cry because they say that crying and being sad is a waste of the precious time they have left. Some say they feel privileged to have been told how much time they have left.

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32 thoughts on “A Time To Live (Living With Terminal Illness Documentary) | Real Stories”

  4. My youngest sister suffered septic shock and spent 6 months away from home learning how to function as a triple amputee. We share our birthday just a couple months ago and she was making preparations to come home and begin her new life…

    She was then diagnosed with lymphoma and they told her to stay and do treatment for it before going home. All she wanted was to go home after so long, but she took their advice and stayed in hospital for her cancer treatment…

    Only two weeks later they finally figured out that what she had was not lymphoma. She actually had a very hard to diagnose, very hard to see (on scans etc), rare, extremely aggressive and untreatable cancer of the soft tissue…

    She was then waiting for an air ambulance to take her home to die.

    All she wanted was to go home and see her dog… all she could say was "Go home". She pleaded.

    She was put on oxygen the day after her terminal diagnosis…
    She couldn't speak the day after that…
    She died 2.5 days after her terminal diagnosis. She had only just turned 39.

    She never did make it home — not for one single day. Not even just to die at home with her pup and her family.🙏

  9. I listened intently to all these lovely terminally ill people. I admired their stoicism in the face of death….but I was so taken back by their seeming lack of insight and even interest in the afterlife. Only one lady alluded to her belief in God. I was wondering if these dear souls were chosen to interview because they did not believe in the afterlife and that is why they avoided the subject entirely. It seems to me that most people confronted with a terminal illness would naturally at least look into the subject of eternity at some point. I found it fascinating that all they thought of was the present which would become the past shortly forever.

  18. Understand how terrible that this is, but you are all falling back on the National Health. I paid into that scheme for more than 30 years and because I no longer reside in the UK my treatment is going to cost me a fortune I no longer have, think yourselves lucky, you won't get a bill for 100K after your stay, you really have no idea how lucky you are with the NHS!

  26. As enriching a 60 minutes as one could hope for.
    Edit; I also wanted to add, all of these people have incredibly warm faces and demeanours. They all seems like people who would be fun to hang out with. Amazing.

  28. A truly amazing documentary. It has given me pause for thought in my own life, though I have not been diagnosed with an illness, I am 65, so who knows when it might strike. I am now going to plan for happiness, Thanks. X

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