Study Guide: “Big Fish”
1. What are the benefits of ‘story-telling’ for a) the narrator & b)
the listener?
2. How might telling “tall-tales” benefit a person with a terminal
illness?
3. How might “tall-tales” float hope and maintain dignity at the
end of life?
4. How does this film make you feel?
5. Thinking about “ice-bergs”, as they do in the film, how
essential is it to have “serious conversations” with your loved
one before they die? –for them? For you?
6. How do we remember our loved ones who die? Do we
remember them exactly as they were or a representation of
this?
7. If we could see how we die, who of us do you think would do
things differently?
8. This week you have watched many individual stories of illness
and suffering, you have met patients, you have imagined tales
and you have explored your own stories; what has scholars
week taught you about the medical narrative and its relative
importance to medical practice?
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