A 2014 NETA Award Winner: Documentary

Thumbnail: Aging Matters: End of Life is NPT’s initiative designed to open a community-based conversation about optimizing the quality of life and, at the same time, lifting the silence usually wrapped around the end of life. Singer/songwriter Kathy Mattea hosts.

Total Budget: $229,128, fully funded by CPB, the Jeanette Travis Foundation, HealthSpring, the West End Home Foundation, and Alive Hospice/Humana

The people involved: Mary Makley - Producer; Matt Emigh - Editor; Beth Curley - Executive in Charge; Kevin Crane - Project Director

What the judges said:
Death and dying are difficult matters. This documentary handled the sensitive subjects professionally, passionately and spiritually.

Aging Matters: End of Life makes you look at your own life and think about how you would want the end of your life or the life of loved ones to be. This documentary looked at all angles of the end of life.

It should be seen on every public television station.