60 Minutes - Season 2009

Season 2009, Episode 1122 - "Cost of Dying; Maziar Bahari's Arrest; "Avatar""

Why is Dr. Ira Byock saying that American's are "dying badly" ? Steve Kroft presents an eye opening and disturbing story about last days of life spent in discomfort, sometimes even restrained as doctor's fail to mention or offer alternatives to dying patients. Is cost really behind dying without dignity or comfort? In our second story, Bob Simon with the first t.v. interview from a Newsweek reporter, Maziar Bahari, arrested for post election reports in Iran. How terrifying to be held prisoner by people Bahari called, "stupid and ignorant". Finally, Morley Safer with James Cameron's newest 3D sci fi fantasy movie, "Avatar". Cameron says he has gone "all in" for this project that took years to develop.