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This 3 page paper discusses the morality of the situation portrayed in the film "Flatliners." Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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is not precisely the case with the medical students portrayed in the film Flatliners, but their experiments are certainly questionable. In this film, a pre-"24" Kiefer Sutherland and his colleagues
try to discover the truth of life after death by having their hearts stopped with drugs, and then having their friends revive them. Sutherland plays Nelson, the leader of this
mad experiment; his colleagues include Julia Roberts as Rachel, Kevin Bacon as Labraccio, William Baldwin as Joe and Oliver Platt as Steckle (James, 1990). The risks in this film are
extensive: not only are they running the risk of dying, but if anyone finds out about this awful experiment, they will certainly be expelled (James, 1990). Nelson is the first
one to "die," and has visions of beautiful green fields and children playing; or that is what he says. It turns out that he also saw something much darker-an ugly
memory from his past, but he chooses not to tell the others about that (James, 1990). One by one, they all go through the ordeal, with a gruesome sort of
one-upsmanship contest taking place in which each subsequent "death" is longer than the one before, with a concomitant greater degree of difficulty in reviving the subject (James, 1990). And each
of the participants brings something nasty back from the "other side" (James, 1990). It appears that at least one of the things that waits for us after death is the
sins we have committed; here they take actual physical form and terrify the students (James, 1990). Steckle, played by the always-watchable Oliver Platt, is the skeptic and functions as the
comic relief as well (James, 1990). He stands in for those members in the audience who not only do not necessarily believe in eternal life, but also have serious doubts
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