Hospice TV

When I am on my death bed, in hospice care, I want a wide screen TV set in front of me with tired old movies playing - commercials included. Because if there is one thing I can not avert my gaze and attention from it is a movie I have seen 1000 times before. I don't know if it will prolong my life, but I cannot imagine dying while there is a 1980s blockbuster marathon on the tube.

Last night I was tired and wanted to go to bed, but Die Hard 2 was on and so I had to watch it.

Why did I have to watch it? I don't know. But suddenly I was not tired anymore. Nor was I asleep. I was in a half sleep. And though I wanted to turn the TV off, I was not able. Not even the commercials offered any hope. I was transfixed.

So I thought, I'll create a new TV station and call it Hospice TV. On it I'll play all the movies that were box office hits for anyone between the ages of 60 to 100.

Dramatization:

Nurse: Doctor, the patient is crashing!
Doctor: Have you done chest compressions?
Nurse: Yes, of course. We've shocked him too!
Doctor: Damn! Give him 50 cc of Lydicane and for Christ sake turn on Hospice TV. If that doesn't buy us some time then nothing on this earth will!
Patient: Hang on, Jesus, Goonies is on! Again.