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What exactly is a death panel? The truth about end-of-life planning.
How did private discussions between seniors and their doctors about
end-of-life choices for the very ill or dying become a flash point
in the national healthcare debate? NOW travels to Wisconsin to sit
in on some of these sessions and see how healthcare reform could
profoundly affect the lives of American seniors.
The not-for-profit Gundersen Lutheran Hospital has two decades of
experience in this area. Their "Respecting Choices" initiative has
become one of the most comprehensive end-of-life planning programs
in the country. Two families grappling with the most difficult and
complex life and death issues gave NOW ON PBS extraordinary
access to their discussions and their decisions.
The NOW Web site at
www.pbs.org/now will feature
information about living wills and how your state regulates them.
