Difficult conversation that as a culture we have not been happening with. But they also have an opportunity for being deeply spiritually satisfying and lessening the amount of suffering that people are going through in the last phase of their life now. Some say they want to die at home, but actually a quarter of us do. Most of the hospitals and Nursing Homes and they die in the intensive care units and this is about hearing a kind of death and i could imagine everyone inventing new because they either struck down or are drugged so they dont tear the tubes out that are binding them to this earth were. I think its very important for me to make it clear that im not arguing for neglecting the people that we love in the last phase of their life. We have a medical system that is by yes towards with juror and caring. For example my dad had a major stroke at 79. A year later he was given a pacemaker, which he was kind of pressured into. He needed Hernia Surgery and they wouldnt let him unless
and [unintelligible] it is time for some to go permanently. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org we begin tonight with a traffic nightmare for the thousands of people coming back into town from memorial day weekend. a serious fire broke out and used tire store. it is still causing havoc tonight. it is a primary artery for anyone travelling from the eastern shore beaches. here is the lowdown on the situation. it has been quite a mess throughout the evening. firefighters are still on the scene. they have been here for about six hours now. they will continue to be here throughout the night extinguishing hot spots. they have reopened lanes in both directions. there are thousands of out-of- towners trying to figure out how to get out of here. dancing flames and black smoke through the roof of this tire store just before 6:00 p.m. a lot of smoke. it is difficult to extinguish this. more than 100 firefighters raced into action, traffic in the ar