This program profiles a terminally-ill patient, his courageous battle against cancer, and the emotional toll his illness takes on his family. At the age of 46, Chris Brotherton was diagnosed with a brain tumor and given only a few months to live. The program follows the last six months of his life, and shows how he, his wife and young son, and the medical staff at a hospice deal with his illness. This is an open, deeply moving but unsentimental record of their thoughts and emotions. (54 minutes)

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