Live on booktv will continue in just a few minutes. Check your Program Guide for information about upcoming authors. In the meantime, wanted to show you a portion of the program you will see tomorrow on booktv. Radio host diane ream offers her thoughts on endoflife care. What is your idea of a good death . Its a question that our director joe fagg really wanted to ask each and every one of the more then 40 people we interviewed around the country. Yet patient or be they doctors or emphasis or proceeds or members of the clergy. What you consider a good death. For myself i would consider a good death as one that is peaceful, painless, quiet. Perhaps having a party beforehand. F having a glass of champagne. Having my husband, my grandchildren, my dearest friends beside me. Holding hands telling them each with a mean to me that would be a good death. In order to make sure that you have autonomy in that process, in order to make sure that there is absolutely no mistake made athat she recruited your grandson ben, tell us what you told ben to do. During the filming of the documentary, which by the way will be shown on Public Television a year from now, that is in the spring of 2021, ben was using his cell phone and i had asked my daughter, his mother, for permission to do this. I dont do anything without asking my daughter for her permission. If youve ever had the experience of diane lane asking your permission to do anything you would understand its not just an ask. [laughter] its very important with grandchildren and with children to ask permission and jenny granted it. I said, ben, id like to speak with you now please take out your iphone as i was speaking with ben about my own desires ben was being filmed by our director of photography dave golding and i told ben exactly what i wanted recorded for posterity, but most of especially for my two children, my husband john haydon, for my grandchildren, i wanted everybody to be aware that if i had either and this is very controversial, i know, if i had began showing signs of alzheimers, if i had an incurable illness, if i was diminishing in ways that i could never fully enjoy the fullness of life, i wanted to go and i wanted them to know that i would want to go. And i read to been a paragraph that i had read that ken morrow lindbergh had read to her children she had written it she never actually read it. Her daughter found the paragraph after it. And morrow lindbergh died and i quote that paragraph in the book because it was so meaningful to me saying, if there is nothing that can be done, please and my life humanely, please do not use extraordinary measures and please follow my wishes. What i am hoping this book does and our documentary does is to get people to talk about the most taboo subject in the world, death and dying. We are so afraid to talk about it, we pretend its not going to happen. I said in a Church Service in massachusetts, about 300 people were there, i said please raise your hand if you plan not to die. [laughter] there was exactly the same low level choco as we though all think its kind of funny but some people think, and especially young people, think they are going to live forever. John ream and i, because of my Family History my father died 11 manchester my mother did my father died 11 months later. Of a broken heart. Johns mother and father each committed suicide. My mother in law 92, my fatherinlaw 72 death was something that was part of our dialogue and i believe that in this day and age death should be something that we all talk about because the baby boomers are reaching their age where parents are dying. We think about the idea that our children are afraid to talk with us about what we want. Why dont we raise what it is we want. Thats what i hope this book will do is this film will do is to get people talking. Watch diane and reames full author discussion tomorrow at 7 40 pm eastern times. [inaudible background conversations] we are alive today from the savanna book festival. Our coverage continues in just a few minutes. [inaudible background conversations] we will be back with more live from savannah and just a little bit. While we wait we wanted to tell you about our indepth guest for the month of april. The American Enterprise institutes abwill sit down with us to discuss his books and career. And answer your questions. Heres a previous appearance he has made on booktv. We americans are in a sense living through a social crisis. We can see that in everything from vicious polarization and rapid culture war incident resentments and upsurge of sight as isolation and alienation, despair that is sent suicide rates climbing and driven an epidemic of opioid abuse in recent years these are deep dysfunctions and seemingly very different parts of our society but they seem to have on