Week 12
Other Side
Choice, dignity, and the end of life
90 min · Feature Documentary · 2025
Other Side follows activist Lynda Bluestein as she fights for the ability to make deeply personal choices at the end of her life.
Available this week on Act Four
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Choice, dignity, and the end of life
Other Side follows Connecticut activist Lynda Bluestein during the final year of her life as she confronts terminal illness, family, and the limits of end-of-life law. When medical aid in dying was not available to her in Connecticut, Lynda challenged Vermont’s residency restriction in court, seeking access to the state’s law as an out-of-state resident. The film follows Lynda and her family through the emotional, legal, medical, and deeply personal realities of that journey.
Why this story, this week
This is a story about choice, not death. Other Side brings one family’s experience into a thoughtful conversation about dignity, care, law, and personal autonomy.
The film remains the emotional center: watch, understand, reflect, explore resources, then support.
Host
Dr. Ira Byock
Film
Other Side
Cause
End-of-Life Choice & Patient Autonomy
Partner
Compassion & Choices
Other Side follows activist Lynda Bluestein as she fights for the ability to make deeply personal choices at the end of her life.
Meet Lynda
Lynda Bluestein
Lynda Bluestein was a Connecticut activist, mother, grandmother, and advocate for end-of-life choice. After years of advocacy in Connecticut, she became a plaintiff in a landmark legal challenge involving Vermont’s medical aid-in-dying residency requirement.