A BUTTERFLY HAS BEEN RELEASED
A death-positive documentary by Jason Zamer and Barry Koch, from TGBeyond
Join a remarkable journey in "A Butterfly Has Been Released," as hospice nurse Allyson spends her last 39 days, living and dying with brain cancer.
With unfiltered honesty, authenticity, and humor, Allyson invites her family, friends and hospice coworkers into her dying experience. As time runs short, her community gathers to celebrate her life with a "living funeral," which Allyson hosts, and afterwards her natural, green burial.
Throughout, Allyson confronts her own mortality and continues to create meaning and legacy, as her death approaches and beyond.
A Butterfly Has Been Released Effect
Allyson's dying wish was to show us that we have choice and control at end of life.
Through the film, Allyson inspires us to explore the options that matter most to us and our families.
Now her message is spreading – from kitchen tables to coffee shops, as people are talking about the things that really matter and what they really want.