Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America, a documentary from HBO offered on digital by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. This compelling documentary, which offers a fascinating look at the varied ways Americans are choosing to celebrate life as it comes to an end, will now be released on Digital March 9, 2020. Directed and produced by Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neill (HBO’s Axios), Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America offers a fascinating look at the varied ways Americans are choosing to celebrate life as it comes to an end. With attitudes about death and end-of-life choices rapidly changing, 2018 saw the first time more Americans chose cremation over more expensive burials, disrupting the $16 billion a year funeral industry. As the baby boomer generation approaches death, more and more are rethinking the way end of life is recognized and are deciding to take control of what will happen when they die. Alternate Endings tells six stories of people nearing death, as well as family members of the recently deceased, who have chosen non-traditional burial options, from celebrations of life and living wakes to green burials, space burials and more. Profoundly intimate and illuminating, the film explores what it means to be near death, either from age or terminal illness, and captures that healing power of honoring, giving thanks and staying true to loved ones who have passed away.
Alternate Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America was directed and produced by Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neill. The film was executive produced by Sheila Nevins (Who Killed Garrett Phillips) and Jacqueline Glover (True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality). Leah Williams (Black America Since MLK: And I Still Rise) and Xochitl Dorsey (15: A Quinceañera Story) were producers.