How does 7 pounds end

Earlier in the film, Emily passes out due to her heart not pumping enough blood to her brain and ends up, once again, in the hospital. She calls Ben and has him tell her a story. He decides on one about a little boy named Tim who wanted to fly. He strapped leaves and branches to his arms, climbed a tree, and jumped off, which led to a broken arm, but an ever-growing passion for flight.

When Ben takes Emily home from the hospital, she begins asking questions about his personal life, and he reveals that he went to MIT because he wanted to be an engineer for a space program. I think this is when I started to realize something was off. The night Emily invites Ben to her home for dinner, his brother shows up.

After she falls asleep, Tim runs to the hospital to find out, statistically, how likely Emily has of surviving. He returns there and calls up Ezra, where he apologizes for his behavior on the phone weeks before, and that the reason for it was to find out how good of a person Ezra is; if he was quick to anger.

He then tells him that a man named Dan would be getting in contact with him and that Ezra could trust him. Then, Tim dials , and the opening scene plays again. Tim told a story about how when he was twelve years old, his father took him and Ben to an aquarium, and that was the first time Tim had ever seen a box jellyfish.

His father told him how deadly they are, but Tim thought they were the most beautiful things he had ever seen. He ends up owning some and sets up his own small aquarium for them to stay with him at the motel. After calling for an ambulance, Tim turns on the bathtub, fills it with ice, climbs in, and dumps his jellyfish into the water with him. They, of course, sting him, and stop his heart.

The hospital tries to revive him, but are unsuccessful. Why does Tim do all this? We find out from Ben, who is speaking to Emily, that a year before, Tim was involved in a car accident that claimed the lives of seven people, including his fiance, Sarah Robinne Lee.

The reason for the accident was due to Tim looking at his phone while driving. Then he meets Emily who has congenital heart failure. He befriends her and they fall in love. His brother finds out that Will Smith is impersonating him and confronts him. After making love to Emily, Will talks to her doctor and confirms that because Emily is a rare blood type, her chance of getting a donor is percent. What are the chances of his heart being compatible with someone with a rare blood type?

Lloyd Ratner, director of renal and pancreatic transplantation at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Lung cancer: About 1, people in the U. But lung transplantation is generally not recommended as a treatment for lung cancer, according to the American College of Chest Physicians. The chance of recurrence or metastasis is high in these patients.

Selim Arcasoy, medical director of the lung transplantation program at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. Designating donors: Whether before or after death, liver, kidney and lung donation can all be directed to someone the donor knows.

Then when Tim has his final date with Emily and goes to his car to get a gift for Emily. Then Tim sleeps with Emily his one and only time and on his way back to the Hotel there is a flashback of Tim killing his wife and six other people in a car accident.

Once Tim gets back to the hospital he calls and sets up a suicide. Tim kills himself allowing seven people to be saved. Within the movie it seems as if Tim is confirming that life is absurd like philosophers Camus and Nagel stated. The movie proves that point because Tim cannot find meaning in his life. Which also is proven by Tim because he take a long serious and rigorous approach to find the right people. There is no meaning behind all of it because he used to be successful and think his life was meaningful and now that he has killed people Tim feels his meaning is changed.

So as a result Tim thinks dying will undermine any meaning of a life he used to have. Also the movie has a lot of internal and external meaning that comes from a Philosopher Wielenberg.