In the classic tragedy “Hamlet,” William Shakespeare refers to the afterlife as “The undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveler returns.”
The new, scripted drama “Going Home” looks at travelers who are about to embark on this journey through the eyes of an end-of-life hospice worker.
The series on the PureFlix streaming service stars Cynthia Geary as Charley Copeland, the senior nurse at Sunset House, a facility in Washington state. She refers to the residents as her “clients” but takes the job extremely seriously.
As she says in the pilot episode, “A good life deserves a good death. A tough life deserves a good death. People misunderstand death. It isn’t the opposite of life; it’s a part of life. For me, walking someone home is a blessing.”…