Love is the Reason is valuable for anyone dealing with end of life challenges
for themselves or with family or friends. The film is important for those
working with patients in hospice or institutional settings and for encouraging
people to have discussions about death and dying early in their lives.
Love is the Reason
Interviews and narration by
Producer Joy Hopkins-Hausman, MSW
Directed by Tobe Carey
Music by Bar Scott
In Love is the Reason viewers meet:
Peter and Bar, whose boy died from a rare form of childhood cancer
Yvonne, a 29 year old breast-cancer educator in stage 4 of her own disease
Leilani, facing the end of her life as artist and mother
Waz, a yogi and AIDS activist
living with HIV
Suzanne, a business and family woman with metastasized carcinoma
Peter and Bar, whose boy died from a rare form of childhood cancer
Yvonne, a 29 year old breast-cancer educator in stage 4 of her own disease
Leilani, facing the end of her life as artist and mother
Waz, a yogi and AIDS activist
living with HIV
Suzanne, a business and family woman with metastasized carcinoma
