
At the end of the Academy Award-nominated film "Don't Look Up," with a meteor hurtling toward Earth, the movie's three scientist-protagonists gather with family and friends for a last supper around a dinner table in central Michigan.
Having exhausted their efforts at action, they eat the food they've prepared and purchased, give thanks and pray before "dying neighborly" – to borrow a phrase coined by poet and writer Langston Hughes in 1965.