“This is a heartfelt and important film that takes a subject most of us would rather ignore and humanizes it. From the dedicated doctors and caregivers to the heroic patients, this is the moving story of what will happen to all of us.”
Ken Burns - America’s most preeminent documentary film maker

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In 2007 a group of passionate Hospice of Michigan volunteers embarked on an effort to change the way people think about end-of-life care. Led by Cecile Fehsenfeld and Rich MacKeigan of the Hospice of Michigan Foundation Board, the group hired a Michigan filmmaker named Matthew Burnell. The result is Except for Six, an extraordinary window into the lives of three hospice patients and their families.

 

This film has been aired on Detroit Public Television, WGVU and other PBS stations across the state of Michigan, and is being distributed to other Hospice organizations across the country to further advance the Hospice movement. 

 

If your group is interested in hosting a film screening, please contact Rae Anne Cinder (in SE Michigan), Ellie Andrus (in western Michigan) or Shirley Haan (in Northern Michigan).