• Mickey: Learning from Death
• Joyce & Charles: The Hospice Alternative
• Sabina & Perry: A Patient's Wish
• Jonathan: A Planned Death
• Mary & Warren: Coping with a Long-Term Illness
• Claire & Don: One Family's Struggle

The Issues

   Sidebars:

• Medical Schools Respond
• Do I Have to Die in Pain?
• Breaking the Ice
• When the Physician Is a Patient
• What Is Hospice?
• Hospice Facts & Figures
• Byron's & Frank's Hospice Experience
• Documenting Your Wishes
• What Are Advance Directives?
• Are Living Wills Honored?
• Talking about Illness & Loss: The St. Francis Grief Communication Program
• The Physician-Assisted Suicide Debate in the Courts
• Paying for Long-Term Care
• How Much Do We Spend on End-of-Life Care?

• Are physicians listening to patients' wishes about dying?
• Is it appropriate for a doctor to help someone to die?
• Should physician-assisted suicide be legalized?
• Should I be afraid to die in an intensive care unit?

• How do you decide when to give up the fight and focus on making the time you have left meaningful?
• What role can nurses play in improving care of the dying?
• How can clergy play a larger role in caring for the dying in American hospitals?

About the Program

   Program Description:

• The Fred Friendly Seminars
• Hypothetical Scenarios
• About the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Biographies of Panelists & Producers
• Transcript

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