View from the death bed. There are no permanent residents here. Washington, United States.
A very special house sits in a quiet residential neighborhood in the state of Washington, a place of reflection, grief, joy, life, and death. Here, the terminally ill come to spend their last hours – held in the presence of compassion, tenderness, and community – before drinking a medication that ends their lives. This project explores how some choose to encounter their own death in this unique space: from issues of community and access, care-giving and medical aid, to the intimate process of dying and the tenderness of grieving. While death often happens behind closed doors and in clinical settings, these photographs are an invitation to look at an inevitable aspect of life from a new perspective.
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