PBS Frontline
Premiere Date: 11/23/2010
Facing Death
How far would you go to sustain the life of someone you love, or your own? When the moment comes, and you’re confronted with the prospect of “pulling the plug,” do you know how you’ll respond?
In Facing Death, FRONTLINE gains extraordinary access to The Mount Sinai Medical Center, one of New York’s biggest hospitals, to take a closer measure of today’s complicated end-of-life decisions. In this intimate, groundbreaking film, doctors, patients and families speak with remarkable candor about the increasingly difficult choices people are making at the end of life: when to remove a breathing tube in the ICU; when to continue treatment for patients with aggressive blood cancers; when to perform a surgery; and when to call for hospice.
CHAPTERS
1: The Way We Die
2: Extending Life…or Prolonging Death?
3: The Great Uncertainty
4: Talking About the End of Life
5: Modern Medicine’s Trade Offs
Introductory Video Clip “The Way We Die” [3 min 26 sec]
Related Link (Interview Judith E. Nelson, M.D.)
