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27 août 2018: Jacqueline Jencquel a 74 ans. Elle est heureuse et ne souffre d’aucune maladie incurable. Pourtant, elle a décidé de mourir en janvier 2020. Elle explique à Hugo Clément pourquoi elle aura recours au suicide assisté en Suisse.

A documentary project about social issues is worth nothing if it doesn’t improve the lives of its subjects

The jobs of some take care of us in ways we don't often stop to think about. Life doesn't pause when we turn out our lights and go to sleep. There are about 3 percent of Americans who work night-shift jobs between 9 p.m. and 8 a.m., according to a 2007 report by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Graveyard-shift employees drive police cars, stock grocery shelves, care for the sick and injured, repair roads, brew coffee - they labor at night so the rest of us can make it through our days.

Reportage by Gettyimages

ABOUT GARBAGE ISLAND For years we’ve been reading about a patch of garbage the size of Texas floating in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, ingeniously dubbed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Basically, any trash that gets dumped in the water rides the currents to this one spot and joins an ever-increasing flotilla of crap. For all the breathless accounts of the mess and its impact on the area’s sealife, however, no one seemed to have a picture of the buildup.

Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery effort.

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