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Louis Theroux's LA Stories - 2. Edge of Life

Louis visits LA's most famous hospital, the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in West Hollywood, where he meets patients battling for their lives against serious illnesses.

America spends a huge amount on health care and a hefty proportion goes on end of life care, with a wide and expensive array of treatments on offer to those with insurance or who qualify for government funded programmes. Louis talks to patients and their families as they face some of the toughest decisions imaginable - whether to accept death and die in relative comfort, or to gamble on further, possibly painful treatment in the hope that it will cure them or prolong their life. He also talks to the doctors whose job it is to guide people through this traumatic process.

Over several months Louis explores the American way of death, which often involves never giving up and keeping faith right to the end.

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'It seems to me that – in a world of finite resources – it wasn’t the best use of the two million. But I try to put myself in Donta’s position and I can understand the motivation to get it done, and likewise the doctor’s urge to do the best for Donta.'

Questions about morality and money aside, at heart, the film is about death and how people deal with it - whether that's staving it off for as long as they can or accepting it.

Parts are quite simply heart-breaking: The moment when Donta sobs after being told that nothing more can be done for him or when Javier marries his girlfriend in a bedside ceremony.

Ultimately, it's oddly uplifting both because of Donta and Javier's bravery and because of Langston's dramatic recovery.

After 37 days in intensive care and seven weeks in rehab, the man who everyone thought would end his life as a vegetable strides, beaming, back into the hospital to thank the staff who saved his life.

'I'm good,' he tells the doctor. Proof that, for all its perceived flaws, the American health system can provide some lucky families with miracle.

Louis Theroux's LA Stories: Edge Of Life, Sunday night at 9pm on BBC2

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