In Filming Death (Edinburgh University Press, 2024), film scholar Outi Hakola examines how documentary films depict palliative/hospice care and assisted dying. In conversation with Assisted Lab’s Anna Elsner, Hakola discusses the concept of a "good death", the ethical challenges of portraying dying individuals, and whether films on assisted dying are inherently activist. She also explores how cultural perspectives on death shape cinematic narratives, explains why she thinks that assisted dying is less of a topic in Finnish documentary films, ponders the future of death documentaries and reveals some unexpected connections between dying and humour. The episode concludes with Hakola’s recommendations of three notable death documentaries: Seven Songs for a Long Life (2016), Before We Go (Jorge León, 2014), and Nathan – Free as a Bird (2013).