Noah Wyle

He might need to be sedated.

He might need to be restrained because he'd be in an unfamiliar place with a very uncomfortable tube down his throat.

And he wouldn't really know what was happening.

Elderly patients can often develop psychosis.

or it might get worse, what would you do?

I really can't answer that for you.

This is your father.

That's your decision to make.

I can guarantee you that we will keep him as comfortable as possible if a natural death is what you choose.

What my sister means is that we're still deciding the best thing to do.

Well, the sooner you decide, the better.

I'm really sorry.

I wish there was more that I could do.

I'm not sure that he has that much time left.

Well, first of all, it's really gratifying to be able to play a storyline over several episodes so that you can watch the gradation of acceptance and watch the different methods and strategies that practitioners use to help families prepare.

And sometimes when you only have an hour to tell a story that has to have a beginning, a middle, and an end, that feels like extremely hurried work and oftentimes feels disingenuous or inauthentic to the process.

So when you can have these things kind of arc over several hours,

it feels like you can walk through those five stages of grief with these characters.

When we prepare for them, there's a lot of conversation about tone and about specificity of point of view.

In this particular instance, we have a brother and a sister who have very different reasons