HOW I CAME TO FILM MY FATHER’S LAST FLIGHT HOME

Filmmaker Ondi Timoner (“DIG!”) captures how her father humanely took his own life in the new film “Last Flight Home.” She writes about what we can learn from his moving story.

In sharing this film, I find myself questioning what it is to be alive or dead. Was he more alive when he was sitting stuck in a chair, hidden from the world, struggling to the bathroom and back? Or is he really dead now that he lives in the hearts of all who see the film and helps them with their own deepest questions about the meaning of life and death? I have always hoped as an artist to make work that will help people, so watching the impact of this is a blessed journey to be on.