The tapes show various people discussing the issues involved in legalizing euthanasia. The speakers include Derek Humphry, then director of the Hemlock Society, speaking on ``The Right to Choose to Die''with Prof. Martin ...

This program tells the story of Francois and Leslie Paulette of Alberta, Canada who decided to let their newborn son K'aila die naturally from liver disease [bilary artresia or giant-cell hepatitis] rather than have him ...

Three families who have daughters being cared for in a Missouri rehabilitation hospital present their differing views on desired care for the persistent vegetative state. Two, the Terrys and the Moores, want tube feeding ...

Physicians Joanne Lynn and Zail Berry explain treatments that deliver nutrition and hydration for the terminally ill who are unable to swallow. Clinical photos show a gastrostomy tube in place in a patient's stomach and ...

Four patients are depicted: Andy Jacobs, described as ``a baby born to die,'' whose mother refuses further treatment and takes him home; David Nalbert, who was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at five and refuses ventilator ...

The June 1990 United States Supreme Court case, Webster v. Reproductive Services, is discussed, pointing out possible difficulties women might have if they wished to obtain an abortion after this decision. Christine Pickles ...

This film is directed to health care staff. It discusses patients and their rights in nursing homes and raises the issue of health care decision making for both incompetent and competent residents. The program provides ...

"Robert De Niro (in an Oscar-nominated performance) and Robin Williams star in this powerful, true story of a maverick doctor and the patients whose lives he changes. Williams plays Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research ...

Three physicians, Nancy Cummings of the National Institutes of Health, Edmund D. Pellegrino, director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Ethics at Georgetown University, and Mark Seigler, director of the Center for ...

Midwest university professors including two physicians, two lawyers and a theologian meet to discuss job discrimination, health insurance, testing without permission, and other problems encountered by HIV/AIDS patients. ...