Appealing characters with a rank bromide of an ending

Rating: 3/10 (19 August 2018)

I found the characters and the acting appealing, but was appalled by the ending. The American and modern mindset of "I'll do it my way or I won't do it all" ends up being a self pitying bromide, that trivializes the real courage demanded to live any life at all, let alone the life of someone with quadriplegia. I personally am ambulatory, but I have worked more than 30 years with special needs individuals of all ages, shapes, and sizes. There is not one of them that I would have said, "Gee,I think the world would've been way better without you". We are faced daily with things we do not want in our lives. Please understand that I am not comparing breaking a shoelace or dropping my favorite teapot with an accident that leads one never to be independent in one's own care again. But no one is better off without these lives, unless you view life as important only when it is convenient and painless, which any fool can see is pretty rare. I am also not attacking those who decide, for whatever reasons, to end their own lives. But make no mistake, it is not dignified, it is not better. We are given the gift to live our lives, whatever lives we have been given. The protagonist got one thing absolutely right: we have one life. One. There is only one of each of us. One. With those odds, one out of billions, may each of us offer ourselves for others for the entire time we have been given.