{"id":22107,"date":"2020-06-22T03:39:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T07:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/watch\/theselfmademan\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T11:21:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T15:21:20","slug":"theselfmademan","status":"publish","type":"film","link":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/films\/theselfmademan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Self-Made Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it ever rational to choose death? On Independence Day at Stern Ranch in central California, 77-year-old solar-energy pioneer Bob Stern finds out he is seriously ill &mdash; possibly dying. Meanwhile, an elderly in-law is slowly declining on artificial life support in a hospital. Bob decides to cheat that fate and take his own life. His family tries to stop him. But first, Bob sets up a video camera. Daughter Susan Stern (<strong>Barbie Nation<\/strong>, POV 1998) tells the story of her father&#8217;s quirky, inspiring life and the difficult end-of-life choices faced by an aging population. Part <em>King Lear<\/em>, part Western, <strong>The Self-Made Man<\/strong> is a true-life family drama about a controversial issue: Should we control how we die? <em>A co-presentation with the Independent Television Service (ITVS).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it ever rational to choose death? On Independence Day at Stern Ranch in central California, 77-year-old solar-energy pioneer Bob&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22108,"template":"","show":[22],"film_type":[37],"filmmaker":[1023],"class_list":["post-22107","film","type-film","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","show-pov","topic-family-society","topic-health-aging","topic-politics-government","film_type-feature","filmmaker-susan-stern"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films\/22107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/film"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films\/22107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25473,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/films\/22107\/revisions\/25473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"show","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/show?post=22107"},{"taxonomy":"film_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/film_type?post=22107"},{"taxonomy":"filmmaker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/pov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filmmaker?post=22107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}