Originally broadcast on television. Host, Bill Moyers.
Contents:
Introduction -- Living with dying: a journal -- End-of-life care -- Respecting one's beliefs -- The search for comfort -- A voyage or convenience? -- Hospice : human kindness -- Decisions and spirituality -- Managing the end -- The end of the struggle.
Summary:
Death, which inevitably comes to all, is nonetheless treated as a taboo subject in America. In this program, Bill Moyers describes the search for new ways of thinking--and talking--about dying. Forgoing the usual reluctance that most Americans show toward speaking about death, patients and medical professionals alike come forward to examine the end of life with honesty, courage, and even humor, demonstrating that dying can be an incredibly rich experience for both the terminally ill and their loved ones.
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