Living Legacy Videos

Living Legacy Videos

This type of video project consists of sensitively interviewing the dying patient in conjunction with other supportive persons who are assisting him or her through the final months and days of life. We do this by helping him or her finish deeply felt emotions that were never expressed to loved ones, and to attempt to help him or her make amends with those he or she is leaving behind.

Because most of us are extremely vulnerable and awkward when it comes to maintaining healthy, loving, and communicative relationships, and expressing our true feelings, many dying patients anguish and linger during their final days because they know they have "unfinished business" with family and loved ones. As experienced psychotherapists, skilled in being with patients at the deepest psychological levels as they attempt to find the words to convey their innermost feelings, we believe that we are among the most qualified people to assist individuals in filming their final legacies.

Often a Memorial Video and a Living Legacy Video go hand in hand in that many families like to have a Memorial Video of their loved one to show at the funeral or at a memorial celebration a short time after the funeral, and then add a Living Legacy Video for the primary benefit of family members. That is, the patient’s final words to family and loved ones tend to be very, very personal and emotional, and have profound impact and meaning to those left behind.

These productions are called Living Legacy Videos because they have been shown to assist the living relatives in their grieving process, as well as freeing them to live a more fulfilled life. Because dying patients know they are close to the end, we have not yet seen a patient who has been frivolous, deceptive, or evasive during their final statements. Those who wish to have us video their final words have no other purpose than to be sincerely profound in the expression of their love, regrets, and hopes to those they are leaving behind. At this stage of life, there is nothing more important to a dying individual than to speak about relationships and love. Even as trained psychotherapists with over 50 years of experience of working with the deepest of emotions, and several years of assisting people through the process of death and dying at a local Hospice, we are unable to film these final legacies without using a lot of Kleenex ourselves. For in these precious final moments of one’s life, the feelings and words are unbelievably deep and moving. We always feel honored that we have been chosen to preserve the spirit of the loved one, forever.


		Living Legacy Videos This type of video project consists of sensitively interviewing the dying patient in conjunction with other supportive persons who are assisting him or her through the final months and days of life. We do this by helping him or her finish deeply felt emotions that were never expressed to loved ones, and to attempt to help him or her make amends with those he or she is leaving behind. Because most of us are extremely vulnerable and awkward when it comes to maintaining healthy, loving, and communicative relationships, and expressing our true feelings, many dying patients anguish and linger during their final days because they know they have "unfinished business" with family and loved ones. As experienced psychotherapists, skilled in being with patients at the deepest psychological levels as they attempt to find the words to convey their innermost feelings, we believe that we are among the most qualified people to assist individuals in filming their final legacies. Often a Memorial Video and a Living Legacy Video go hand in hand in that many families like to have a Memorial Video of their loved one to show at the funeral or at a memorial celebration a short time after the funeral, and then add a Living Legacy Video for the primary benefit of family members. That is, the patient’s final words to family and loved ones tend to be very, very personal and emotional, and have profound impact and meaning to those left behind. These productions are called Living Legacy Videos because they have been shown to assist the living relatives in their grieving process, as well as freeing them to live a more fulfilled life. Because dying patients know they are close to the end, we have not yet seen a patient who has been frivolous, deceptive, or evasive during their final statements. Those who wish to have us video their final words have no other purpose than to be sincerely profound in the expression of their love, regrets, and hopes to those they are leaving behind. At this stage of life, there is nothing more important to a dying individual than to speak about relationships and love. Even as trained psychotherapists with over 50 years of experience of working with the deepest of emotions, and several years of assisting people through the process of death and dying at a local Hospice, we are unable to film these final legacies without using a lot of Kleenex ourselves. For in these precious final moments of one’s life, the feelings and words are unbelievably deep and moving. We always feel honored that we have been chosen to preserve the spirit of the loved one, forever.

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