What
the hell, the news is so bad this week we might as well jump
head-first into death. Tonight’s theme episode of The
Independents (Fox Business Network, 9 p.m. ET, 6 p.m. PT,
with re-airs three and five hours later) attempts to find the
silver lining in the business of dying, or at least to imagine a
future in which life-and-death (and post-death) decisions
are no longer mangled by the state.
The show begins with
Kenyon College Economics Professor David Harrington and Golden
Gate Funeral Home Director and Ask the
Undertaker star John Beckwith, who will
discuss coffin
regulations, tissue
harvesting, the rise of cremation, and other hot funeral
trends. Anti-aging visionary Aubrey De Grey then brings
his beard and his wit to explain the whys and
why-so-scareds of his death-defying research. Compassion
& Choices President Barbara Coombs Lee talks about
the lived experience with dignified-death laws (like in Oregon),
and why that isn’t “assisted suicide.” Then it’s
obviously time for a game of “Famous Last Words,” featuring as
contestants serial ghostwriter (and Reason
contributor) Michael Malice and Fox
Business
Making Money host Charles Payne.
So what happens when you die? We’ll let viewers ask blue-eyed
priest Father Jonathan
Morris whether heaven really is a place where nothing ever
happens. Then Malice comes back to talk about the emerging
trend of super-duper fun funerals, and the show ends with the
co-hosts imagining their own ideal exits from this mortal coil.
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