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Esme Fournier has decided to be euthanised. The decision has been a long and painful process and there were a hundred steps that brought her and her family to this strange cold clinic with a yellow bed in the corner and a couch covered in ...See moreEsme Fournier has decided to be euthanised. The decision has been a long and painful process and there were a hundred steps that brought her and her family to this strange cold clinic with a yellow bed in the corner and a couch covered in plastic. For her sons the reality of what's about to happen is setting in. Mick, her oldest, is fussing around with paperwork trying to make it all go smoothly, Will is trying to laugh it off and Connor, her youngest, is simply trying to stop himself from spiraling into despair. When the forms are all signed and the moment is fast approaching, Will makes one joke too many and Connor snaps, fleeing the clinic and the reality of his mother's death just around the corner. Outside the clinic, Connor stares at a fallen bird's nest as Will comes to comfort him. Will finally opens up about the pain he feels "We just have to lose and be alright with it, I'm almost all the way there, it's just a little bit of me that's lying." This is just enough to get them both back inside and finally, as a family, they hold hands as Esme drinks a small cup of liquid barbiturates and says her last goodbye. Written by Seamus Quinn & Lincoln Vickery See less