Television news personality Ted Koppel moderates a nationwide video teleconference with discussion in three areas: 1) Introduction and Technology. Panelists are Thomas F. Ferris, Donald S. Frederickson, Albert Gore, Jr., ...

Host Willard Gaylin says that we are living during a revolution in biomedical technology which has made prolongation of life possible when previously death would have occurred. Others who appear include Joseph Fletcher, ...

Interviews with Derek Humphry and Dame Cicely Saunders offer arguments in favor of and against assisted suicides. Dame Cicely says the ``right to die will become the duty to die.'' An unidentified man from Philadelphia ...

Part I: When the Time Comes (18 minutes). This segment dramatizes the physician's concerns and discomfort in discussing a do-not-resuscitate policy for a patient. Part II: Professional Perspectives (25 minutes) The second ...

Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino moderates panel members George Annas, Paul B. Hofman, Darlene Jelinek, Bernard Lo, Joanne Lynn, Catherine Murphy, and Susan Wolf in a discussion of patient care near the end of life, stressing the ...

Asking whether mercy killing is a blessing and an answer to terminal illness and intractable pain, or a beginning to a new holocaust, William F. Buckley, Jr. narrates the film. It includes short presentations by persons ...

Discussion of treatment decisions concerning four different patients by those involved in the cases provide insights for the viewer. The patient, the health care teams, and the patient's families are represented. Three ...

The film examines ethical and emotional issues surrounding a patient's request to have his ventilator turned off so that he may die. The perspectives of the patient's wife, his physician, and his nurse are presented as ...

This production is a follow-up of the 1974 film, Please Let Me Die: The Wish of a Blind Severely Maimed Burn Patient, which discussed a patient's right to refuse treatment and die. Ten years later, the patient, Dax Cowart, ...