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LIFE Before Death #6 -- We All Belong

Posted by Greg Schneider on July 7, 2011 at 7:48pm
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"We All Belong" Short Film 6 of 50 in the LIFE Before Death documentary series about the global crisis in untreated pain and the dramatic life changing effect palliative care services can deliver to patients and their families around the world. A Music Video to the Ellis Paul song "We All Belong" (2011), written specially for the Treat The Pain and Life Before Death initiatives. A montage of patients and people from around the world including the USA, Australia, Canada, China, India, Uganda, South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, Georgia and Ireland accompany statistics courtesy of the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Global Access to Pain Relief Initiative (GAPRI). "4 of every 5 people globally lack access to essential pain medicines." "Over 5 billion people are affected worldwide." "3.6 million people will die with untreated severe pain from cancer and HIV this year." "99.9% of those deaths will be in low and middle-income countries." "15% of the world currently uses 94% of the world's medicinal opioids." Dr Frank Ferris (USA) reflects; "As I look around the world I see that about a billion people in the world have access to decent pain management and palliative care. That leaves almost 6 billion people with virtually no access to good analgesics or health care professionals who know how to appropriately administer them. To me this is a crisis." Featuring Ellis Paul (USA), Dr Frank Ferris (USA). Ellis Paul is one of the leading voices in American songwriting and one of the top songwriters to emerge out of the fertile Boston folk scene. LIFE Before Death is a documentary project comprising a feature film, a one-hour television program and 50 short films. The project is broadly about patients facing life-limiting illness, their families and the remarkable health care professionals fighting to change the culture of medicine to be focused on care, rather than exclusively on cure. LIFE Before Death will include 50 short films themed around pain control and end of life issues, releasing one a week for a year from May 2011. A feature film will be released in late 2011, followed by the release of a television documentary in early 2012. The project is presented by the Lien Foundation and produced by Moonshine Movies. It is also supported by the International Association for the Study of Pain, The Mayday Fund, the Union for International Cancer Control and The Institute for Palliative Medicine at San Diego Hospice International Programs. "We All belong" by Ellis Paul (2011) Featured in the film LIFE Before Death Buy the song today at www.TreatThePain.com

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