On our own terms : Moyers on dying

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Label

On our own terms : Moyers on dying

Title remainder

Moyers on dying

Title variation

Moyers on dying

Contributor

• Films for the Humanities (Firm)
• Public Affairs Television (Firm)
• WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
• Mannes, Elena
• Moyers, Bill D
• Moyers, Judith Davidson
• O'Neill, Judy Doctoroff
• Pellett, Gail

Subject

• Assisted suicide
• Critically ill -- Care
• Death -- Psychological aspects
• Hospice care
• Palliative treatment
• Right to die
• Terminal care
• Terminally ill
• VIDEORECORDING

Language

eng

Summary

News correspondent Bill Moyers hosts this four part series about the care of the dying. Part 1, "Living with dying" is about the search for new ways of thinking and talking about dying. Part 2, "A different kind of care" is about the important strides being made in the area of palliative care at pioneering institutions such as New York's Mount Sinai Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Part 3, "A death of one's own" is about the complexes underlying the many choices at the end of life, includiing the debate about physician-assisted suicide, paying for care, and balancing dying and dignity. Part 4, "A Time to change" is about the crusading medical professionals, including staff members of the Balm of Gilead Project in Birmingham, Ala. who have dedicated themselves to improving end-of-life care by changing America's overburdened health system

Cataloging source

U9V

Characteristic

videorecording

Date time place

Series originally aired on PBS on Sept. 10-13, 2000

Runtime

360

Technique

live action