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i never have met mborg/mike but his message gave me some tears in my eyes. before my son got sick i was a hospice volunteer. i spent some really nice times watching old movies with some lovely people and hearing about their lives. hey, i'm not counting him out! as my manager always said, "people can be taken off hospice care just as easily as put on it!" and i believe that. its not over til its over (and i don't think its over even then...) blessings and warm thoughts to everyone, love, z

Mort Sahl wrote a book and many columns while on hospice.
But I can sooo relate to the movies! They completely occupied me and in those worlds, there was no pain, some laughter, and much entertainment. What's your favorite so far?

its not old, but for me its 'field of dreams' - or, anything with judy garland (especially 'meet me in st. louis') :-)

I too almost exclusively watched old movies when I was in chemo and radiation. My life consisted of going from my bed to the bathroom for a pukefest. Between those times I would lay in bed and watch the Turner Classic movie channel and found great comfort in them. The Marx Brothers, Citizen Kane, all those great James Cagney movies, Sullivan's Travels, Harvey, and so many others. The thing I was drawn to the most was the use of lighting and camera angles that were such a great part of black and white films. Those guys really knew there stuff and that art is lost in todays hyper-technological world. Remember when Ted Turner colorized all those films? The whole effect of the director and cameraman's vision were lost. I kept waiting for them to colorize the black and white portion of the Wizard of Oz! It was a travesty that thank god is past. I wonder why we are drawn to those old movies in our hour of crisis. Has anyone else experienced this? When I got better my interest seem to wane but as I said they were a godsend to me at the time.

I tended to watch reruns of Law and Order a lot, Mythbusters and cooking shows. The food network, a.k.a. the food porn network, became one of my favorites. Netflix was good because of the online viewing. I used my notebook computer as a makeshift portable media device. It was great because I would fade in and out of sleep so many times that it was difficult to watch full episodes. With Netflix I would just pick up where I left off. I also watched a lot of Good Eats episodes on YouTube.