I like movies set in another time. Legends of the Fall, Historical movies and I recently saw a movie about a man with polio set in the 1950's before vaccines for polio. A true story. It was called "Breathe".

He was healthy and stricken with polio and completely paralyzed. Was in an iron lung. But he had a very devoted wife and skilled, educated friends who designed wheel chairs and traveling apparatus that got him out of his iron lung and enabled him to get around and breathe away from the iron lung. They took him outside which his hospital found outrageous because no one leaves their iron lungs. They took him on plane rides, took him to other countries and they saw the world with this makeshift apparatus made by his friends.

His illness finally took it's toll and he started having life threatening bleeds because bodies cannot live indefinitely being completely paralyzed. It was inevitable that he would have a bleed and end up suffocating to death. He was getting worse and worse and finally he decided on assisted suicide with the help of his wife and friends. It was discrete, humane and very, very sad. In the end it said some of the things they did was used to improve the quality of life for other polio patients. That movie really touched my heart.