WHY LAST FLIGHT HOME, ONDI TIMONER’S HEARTFELT DOCUMENTARY, IS A MOVING LESSON ON HOW TO SAY GOODBYE

“We don’t get a choice on how we come into this world, but we should get a choice on how we go out.”

These are the words of a nurse consulting Eli Timoner and his family, spoken as they progress towards his passing. 

Eli isn’t dying. Not in the medical sense. But he is tired of living. After suffering from a stroke in his early fifties and having spent the last few years in agony, unable to move and, in his own words “waiting to die”, Eli has chosen to start the process of terminating his life under the California End of Life Option Act.

Due to regulations under the act, once Eli has made his first official request to a physician, he must wait 15 days until he can be given the green light. 

It’s then that Ondi Timoner, his daughter, picks up a video camera and starts recording.