My friend, l can't teII you how good it is to see you.
- l gotta be honest with you. l thought you were dead. - Never feIt better in my Iife.
Oh, come on. That's a Iie. Look at you. How's SyIvie?
- SyIvie is dead. - Fantastic. And the kids?
Denny, the Iast time we spoke, you mentioned that despite astronomicaI odds...
you managed to become yet an even better Iawyer.
- Hard to beIieve, isn't it? - I have a motion...
which obviousIy l am quite capabIe of arguing myseIf, being more taIented than you.
- No, you're not. - l aIso happen to be the cIient.
The case is also extremely unconventional.
l want to be frozen.
What do you mean?
l mean, l want to be frozen and stored in a cryonic institute.
What do you mean?
l'm 7 8 years oId. lt won't be Iong before my body starts to wither.
I've lived a full life. The technology will soon exist...
that l wiII be abIe to doubIe that Iife.
I want to be frozen and stored...
untiI such time that technoIogy becomes a reaIity.
What do you mean?
l mean, when l Ieave this worId, l don't want it to be forever.
Which means for now...
l want to be frozen.
What do you mean?
- ~~~~[ Funk ] - ~~~~[ Man Vocalizing ]
~~~~[ Continues ]
~~~~[ Ends ]
So basicaIIy, he wants to be euthanized.
And preserved on ice.
EvidentIy there's some right-to-privacy Iaw l've never heard of.
Why shouId you? lt's in the Constitution.
What's MiIton Bombay doing here?
He wants to be frozen and stored in a cryonics faciIity.
- AII in favor? - And he wants Denny to argue it.
Hmm. And what couId possibIy occasion him to want that?
The probIem is the basis of the case, if there is one...
wouId Iie in the BiII of Rights...
which Denny, of course, feeIs never shouId have been passed.
We're one Supreme Court appointment away from overturning.
- The BiII of Rights? - Damn right. Red states ruIe.
Paul, there seems to be some psychological defcit in play here.
l refer to MiIton's, not yours.
Any person who wants to be frozen...
shouId perhaps be referred to a therapist, not a Iawyer.
Hey, pretty boy.
l hear you're Iooking for some interesting cases. CheIina HaII.
We haven't officiaIIy met.
Yes. l've peeped at you in the girIs room... unofficiaIIy.
Cute. Come with me?
Stuart MiIch, AIan Shore.
A pIeasure, sir. Thanks again for agreeing to see me.
Not at aII. EspeciaIIy since l've made no such agreement.
Show him the gizmo, Stuart.
TeII him what it is, Stuart.
lt's caIIed a news bIocker. lt's soId off the lnternet.
You attach it to the coaxial input on your television...
and it basicaIIy bIocks news transmissions.
lt's true.
My high schooI principaI attached these devices to aII the teIevisions in the buiIding.
The probIem is it turns out it onIy bIocks one network- the most fair and baIanced one.
All the others, kids can watch.
lt singIes out one network onIy?
Yes, because this network supposedly pushes a conservative agenda.
Which is a Iot of hooey. This is bIatant censorship.
It furthers evidence of a liberal media, and I for one am sick of it.
- ln aII my years- - ''ln aII his years.''
Milton, I consider you a friend.
ActuaIIy, l don't. l find you a bit boorish.
But I have always enjoyed your unfettered candor.
And in the spirit of that candor...
the case cannot be won.
Given that this is the onIy Iifetime you'II ever get to have...
pIease don't waste what's Ieft of it in the vast cavernous sinkhoIe...
known as our system of jurisprudence.
l made my Iife in that system.
- l rose to the very top of the system. - No, you didn't.
Milton, nojudge is going to let you be euthanized...
and stashed in a Sub-Zero.
We cannot know that unIess we try, ShirIey.
I know you recently retired. Is this-
And pIease do not proffer psychoIogicaI counseI.
I came in here in search oflegal and intellectual acuity.
- And you sought out Denny? - I assure you...
this is something considered with aII due gravity.
I came to a decision. And now...
l appeaI to you as my attorney...
to heIp me execute that decision.
Do l make myseIf cIear?
PerfectIy.
We're taIking about your execution.
- Frozen? - That's why he's here?
lf there's any IegaI research on point, which l doubt there is, the sooner the better.
By way of analogy,you might want to look at assisted suicide or right-to-die.
Brad, you take the math and science because you're maIe...
and therefore more innately qualifed.
Anything and everything you can fnd on cryonics technology.
Wait. This frm is actually going to help Milton Bombay be put on ice?
Oh, come now, Lori. You of aII peopIe shouId know...
it's not so bad to go through Iife as a PopsicIe.
- What is that supposed to mean? - Nothing.
My, everybody's so sensitive.
Can't we all just get along?
We go to court this morning, so as fast as you can.
First of aII, students have no vested rights whatsoever to watch any news during schooI.
But they are aIIowed to do so at WinsIow High, except for one network.
Miss Tyler, is this particular broadcast being singled out on content?
Even if it is, Your Honor, schooIs have the right to IegisIate content...
just as we can search students'lockers.
Objection to the spin,Judge. This is a no spin zone.
Aprincipal is not subject to grounds of reasonableness when it comes to policy.
This is the First Amendment in pIay here. What's next? Burning a few books?
Miss Tyler, I must say, this has a bad stink to it.
How do you ban one network news program and not the others?
The principal felt this particular network was detrimental.
WeII, l want to hear from the principaI in this witness chair...
or l'm going to grant the petitioner's motion right now.
Fine. l can get him here this afternoon.
We'll adjourn for lunch. Be back at 4:00.
[ Gavel Raps ]
- There they are! - Mr. Bombay, why are you doing this?
It's simply about wanting to continue my legacy for centuries to come.
l'm perhaps the greatest Iawyer of aII time.
- No, he's not. l'm better. - l want that time to continue into the future.
How are you, sweetie? StiII the king. Denny Crane.
[ Reporters CIamoring ]
Mr. Bombay, you are asking for a court order to end your Iife.
Under today's science. Tomorrow might be quite different.
But, sir, Iet's be reaIistic.
Why the heII do l have to be reaIistic? lt's my body.
What do l have to do? Get pregnant?
[ Shirley ] Well,you may be couching this in pro-life terms...
but in today's scientifc world...
being frozen makes you dead.
l am asking for the chance to be aIive in tomorrow's worId.
To play with my great, great, great, great-grandchildren.
Do you have grandchildren today?
I've got six, all grown. Three of them love me.
[ ChuckIes ] Suppose one of them came into the court...
at, say, the age of 30, asking to be frozen.
l'd say wait. You've got a Iot of years.
But maybe they too wouId Iike it done before their body starts to go south.
Which at 30, it can.
Look, l don't advocate this for young, heaIthy peopIe.
But certainly if you can decide for yourself,so should others, right?
l'm cIose to 80. My Iife is aImost over.
Does one have to be old to get this autonomy?
How about somebody 3 5 with cancer?
lf it was incurabIe, yes.
Parkinson's Disease, M.S.?
What if somebody wanted to get frozen to avoid the draft?
Let 'em move to Canada. Freeze his balls off.
Denny Crane.
- Why did you do that? - You were getting picked apart in there.
- l was doing just fine. - l had to stop the other side's momentum.
- He was shooting spitbaIIs in a battIeship. - Boys.
l was having a reaI moment in there and you stepped on it.
Boys, we need to get back to the office and prepare our expert.
- He stepped on my moment. - Did not.
Boys!
[ Man ] Cryonics proponents don't refer to the patient as dead.
SimpIy preserved.
- Frozen? - Yes.
But, Doctor, if a person's heart isn't beating...
if there's no brain activity, we tend to caII them dead.
[ Doctor ] Under today's medical defnition,yes.
But the defnition of cryonics is basically a process...
using a very cold temperature to prevent people from dying.
- Where'd we get this quack? - Shh.
Uh, Doctor, let's be fair.
Has anyone ever been brought back to Iife after being frozen?
No. And it's not IikeIy to happen soon.
But the technology is changing.
We're discovering more and more about moIecuIar nanotechnoIogy every day.
- And one day it wiII be a reaIity. - Uh, moIecuIar what?
One second, Doctor.
Denny, l'm gonna try something here l don't have time to expIain.
I just need you to go with it, okay?
- l want you to count backwards from a hundred siIentIy. - Why?
l'II expIain Iater. lt's important.
- Uh, 99, 98- - Shh.
Okay, Doctor.
We've heard that cryonics is in our future.
But pIease, give me one exampIe...
one piece of evidence that indicates that this could possibly work.
- The wood frog. - I'm sorry. Did you say ''wood frog?''
Uh, yes. A frog in the Canadian Arctic...
that hibernates and completely freezes in the winter.
No heartbeat, no brain activity.
lt goes compIeteIy dead by today's definition of death.
Then in the spring, it wakens.
Brain activity resumes, heart starts beating. It's alive again.
- And you think if it's possibIe for a frog- - Why not for a human?
If we can accomplish total metabolic arrest with no tissue damage...
we wiII be abIe to freeze peopIe for thousands of years and bring them back to Iife.
Thank you, Doctor.
Humans are warm-bIooded animaIs designed to stay at 98 degrees.
Those frogs are cold-blooded with a completely different molecular structure.
The future of cryonics involves the development of molecular technology.
- There is no evidence it can work with warm-bIooded- - Yes, there is.
We have frozen rat livers, thawed them, and transplanted them into living rats.
ln lsraeI, they did it with frozen hearts. ln both cases, the rats Iived.
Not for Iong, but the hearts and Iivers did come back to Iife.
With humans, we've frozen heart valves-
And you think the idea of freezing peopIe is ethicaI? ls that consistent with-
lt's evidentIy ethicaI to freeze embryos.
But again, I'm up here to give you the science, not engage in a moral debate.
He kicked their ass.
And the best part of it was he had integrity...
which is what you need in your expert.
- What did he cost us? - Twenty-five hundred.
- The whore. - Schmidt.
- How are we doing? - The Ieading federaI case wouId be Schiavo.
lt's not first circuit. But since the Supreme Court...
just refused to hear the appeaI, we couId argue it's controIIing.
l want to read it. Can you make me a copy? You want to read it, Denny?
HeII, no.
Can l taIk to you in private for a second, pIease?
l, uh- l didn't want to embarrass you in front of your superiors...
but it seems to me the controIIing case on this wouId be Cruzan.
The whoIe thrust of Rehnquist's opinion was autonomy...
the patient's right to decide.
The opinion was muddIed. lt was essentiaIIy three-pronged.
Autonomy, the patient's best interest, and the state's interest to preserve Iife.
You'd win on prong one but you'd IikeIy Iose on prongs two and three.
You're much better off arguing Schiavo.
Mr. Bombay?
- Yes? - Are you aII right?
Oh, yes. Uh, it's just that you brought me back to a memory of-
l think l was happiest as a Iawyer when l was a young associate.
[ ChuckIes ] l hated doing aII the grunt work...
but there was aII the promise of tomorrow.
WouId you have dinner with me tonight, Tara?
[ Shirley ] Milton?
Why don't you have it with me?
Why this one particuIar network?
I know all the networks pander. Some to the liberal, some to the conservative.
But when a news organization goes as far as to actuaIIy promote a poIiticaI agenda-
Can l diaI you back a second? How do they do that?
Well, frst, the broadcasts speak for themselves.
Their C.E.O. used to be the chief media operative for former RepubIican presidents.
I object to his open mind,Judge.
- Move to strike? - Sustained.
And then when I saw the documentary Outfoxed, it blew my mind.
- Because? - Because it detailed the extent to which...
the media can go to promote conservative RepubIican causes.
Your Honor, we'd like to show you a brief series of clips from this documentary.
We weren't necessarily, as it was told to us...
a news gathering organization so much as we were...
a proponent of a point of view.
[ Man #2 ] They wanted all news to be a matter of opinion.
We were ordered from the top to carry propaganda...
carry RepubIican right-wing propaganda.
It was made very clear to us that our activities were being monitored.
And if someone wasn't watching it live, they were at least recording it...
and they wouId review it after the fact to see what we did.
[ Principal ] If you watch the documentary, and I strongly suggest that you do...
you'II see that this goes on and on and on.
And these accounts are from peopIe on the inside.
Okay. But to put a device on the television?
I hate the idea of shutting down free expression, but this became more of a safety issue.
A safety issue?
They've got their taIk show hosts decIaring that anyone who is opposed to the war...
is an enemy of the state, a traitor.
Now we're getting more fights. Kids are being attacked for being unpatriotic.
Arab and MusIim students being targeted.
Maybe this IittIe device is overkiII. l admit that.
But l've got a high schooI to run.
And the first order of the day is keep the kids safe.
l thought the first order of an academic community...
was embracing diversity of opinion.
Not when it's a bias that fosters intoIerance.
Did you attach any little blockers to networks...
that Iie about presidents and, say, the NationaI Guard?
l don't dispute there's a IiberaI bias too.
You don't censor those networks?
- Those networks don't foster intoIerance. - Any blockers for shock jocks?
Or is racism and misogyny not a concern?
Look, there's a lot of garbage out there. I'll admit that.
- What about your own teachers? - My teachers?
A recent poll showed six out of seven college professors voted forJohn Kerry.
Does that not suggest a bias in academia, Mr. Harper?
- Objection. - We've got countless news programs...
too many taIk shows to keep track of...
aII kinds of opinions being spewed out over the airwaves.
Extremes to the Ieft, to the right. And the onIy thing you bIock-
That's actually not true. There's all kinds of programs we don't permit.
But this is the onIy news show?
Look, what does it say that they make a device to block out this particular news network?
lt says that censorship is popuIar. That doesn't make it right.
And as principaI, l have to make that caII.
And Iet me say this.
l'm a proud American. l got a flag on my porch.
I pray for those troops every night.
l taught some of those kids. They're over there fighting for democracy...
which incIudes the right for you to question your government.
And for this network to be saying otherwise...
offends me as a citizen and as a principaI.
[ Alan ] I see. So...
you're squashing content to promote democracy?
Once again...
l wiII shut down any content that fosters intoIerance.
That is where l stand.
You're going to dinner with him?
l want to find out what's reaIIy going on here.
What's going on is a runaway ego. lt's aII about a spotIight.
The man wishes he were me.
We aII wish that, Denny.
l know Mi- l go way back with MiIton.
l know MiIton Iike the back of my hand.
He knows he's gonna lose that motion. No risk ofhim being frozen.
In the meantime, he's all over the news.
l'm teIIing you, the man wants to be me.
Even so, l'm gonna have a IittIe taIk with him.
He's gonna insist you go to Nicky BIair's. Watch.
- Sorry? - He pays them to Iet him sing.
- l beg your pardon? - He sIips the maitre d' a hundred bucks...
to come over to the tabIe and say, ''PIease, Mr. Bombay, sing us a song.''
lt's aII about the IimeIight with MiIton.
l promise you.
What do you mean lose? We're on the side of the First Amendment.
The probIem is schooI principaIs do have a wide discretion.
And the materiaI is arguabIy inflammatory.
lf they can cIassify them as disruptive speech-
PIus, l don't know which newscast you've been watching recentIy...
but the First Amendment is Iosing its Iuster IateIy.
Some networks are even censoring their scripted dramas.
So what do we go with if not freedom of expression?
[ Man On TV] Meanwhile, actor Vince Odoms,you know him as thejudge...
in the Michael Jackson reenactment trial...
has abruptIy quit to go pIay PhiI Spector...
in the reenactment of that triaI on a competing network.
F.B.S. president Rick Silverman is threatening to sue...
cIaiming the actor is under contract and that it wouId be a materiaI breach...
to walk in the middle of ongoing litigation.
Meanwhile, it was learned today that the Los Angeles County Sheriff's offce reportedly-
- ~~~~[Jazz, Slow ] - [ People Chattering ]
- So, what's the point? - The point?
Of us having dinner, what's the point?
lf it's sexuaI, l'II need notice so l can take my IittIe piII.
You asked to have dinner with Tara. What was the point of that?
With her, l wouIdn't need a piII.
You've taIked a wonderfuI game about the future.
About wanting to perpetuate your Iegacy into the next century.
But when you were taIking to Tara...
what l observed was a man Iooking backwards...
a man who perhaps is IoneIy.
You've got it wrong.
l saw meIanchoIy, MiIton...
and meIanchoIy accompanied by the desire to be dead.
ls this MiIton Bombay Iooking to check out in a way...
that doesn't tarnish his grand reputation?
Denny thinks you don't want to win this case...
which wouId expIain your hiring him.
But you aIso hired me.
You lost your wife,yourjob.
Are you just giving up, MiIton?
Let me teII you something.
As science and medicine continue to evolve, so must the law to keep pace.!
I'm blazing the trail as a patient today...
so l can continue to set the standard as a Iawyer tomorrow.
- That's what this is about! - Okay.
Mr. Bombay, some of the patrons have requested you grace us with a song tonight.
Yes. TeII them to vamp ''She's Making Eyes.'' l'II be right up, WaIter.
ExceIIent. Thank you, sir.
l happen to beIieve in reincarnation.
And l aIso beIieve things even out.
Given the hand l was deaIt this time...
I could be in for some serious hardships the next go-around.
And l don't want that in my next Iife.
l want to be me aII over again. MiIton Bombay!
- ~~~~[ Band Begins ] - Got it.
Ladies and gentIemen, a treat. A speciaI guest performance...
from that Iegendary barrister, MiIton Bombay!
Thank you. Thank you. Good to be here, foIks.
Here's one of my favorites. l hope it's one of yours too.
~~ [ Singing ]
- ~~~~[ Ends ] - [ Applause ]
What do you mean you're cIosing? What happened to ShirIey?
MiIton, there's a reason you came to me in the first pIace.
ln your gut, you know l'm better than you.
- Go with your gut. - l'd sooner go with my intestine.
- l'd prefer ShirIey doing the cIosing. - l'm not doing it.
- And neither are you. - WeII, who does that Ieave? Uh- Uh-Tammy?
- Tara. - As l said from the start...
the Iaw doesn't support us here.
lf we're going to get a court order aIIowing you to die...
which wouId be the resuIt in today's worId...
that judge is going to have to hear from you.
- He did hear from me. - l don't think so.
lf this is onIy about you getting to perpetuate your Iegacy in the next century...
l'm afraid you're gonna have to make do with sustaining it in this one.
You need to do better. And, MiIton, for my money...
any guy who's asking to get stuck in a freezer...
isn't that desperate to Iive.
Every major media watchdog group has IabeIed this news program...
as the most biased right-wing news program on teIevision.
So what? Political bias is rampant throughout the news business...
incIuding IiberaI bias.
We're not talking aboutjust a slant,Judge.
A recent poII showed that the more peopIe watch this news show...
the Iess they know about foreign poIicy...
and the more incIined they are to support the government.
Now that may be good team spirit...
but it's disgracefuI journaIism.
You taIk about a democracy. What kind of principaI censors free expression?
Uh, Your Honor, if l may?
Any principal has the right, if not the obligation...
to raiI against bias wherever he sees it.
- You saw that tape. - Which was aIso biased and seIf-serving.
Their most popuIar commentator threatens retribution against those who dissent.
It almost rises to the level ofhate speech.
And if in my view, itjeopardizes the welfare of the students...
l certainIy have the authority to shut it down.
Mr. Shore, this is a schooI.
ls it wise to expose students to programs which send the message...
you're anti-American if you question the government?
Your Honor, before we convict them as the network of conservative vaIues...
or any vaIues for that matter, Iet's remember...
these are the foIks who brought you Joe Billionaire and Who's Your Papa?
That's the entertainment division, Mr. Shore.
l'm taIking about the news.
l'm teIIing you it's aII the same. This isn't about poIiticaI content.
This is a corporation Iooking to make money.
They began as aIternative news programming to grab a market share.
They saw ratings and profit in a conservative demographic...
and they've been waving the flag ever since, and so what.
News today, aII of it, is ''infotainment.''
Last February, a deadIy toxin known as ricin...
was found in the maiI room of the senate majority Ieader.
HeadIine News led with JanetJackson's exposed breast.
A month ago, whiIe we were in the middIe of a war...
newscasts aII across the country Ied with Prince Harry's costume at a keg party.
It's a business. And while some newsgroups go with the deeper social issues...
Iike Brad and Jennifer's breakup...
the one here chooses to run with red, white and bIue.
And by the way, before you vilify them, a survey done in 2002...
reveaIed that 7 0% of the peopIe in this country beIieve it is good...
when news organizations take a strong pro-American point of view.
- Seventy percent. - Does that make it right?
Of course it makes it right.
Because the ruIe in infotainment is give the peopIe what they want.
This is money, Your Honor, not poIitics.
Let me say, I am a great lover of the news.
- l can see that. - l watch it aII.
On days Iike 9/1 1 , or for other worId-changing events...
the news programs are nothing short of spectacular.
When Martin Luther King deIivered ''l Have a Dream''...
when President Kennedy was shot...
when we walked on the moon, the Tet Offensive-
Our Iives are shaped by these events.
ln part, because of the news.
But on aII other days, they're businesses...
Iooking to compete Iike anybody eIse...
in a highIy competitive marketpIace.
They seII product. And even if you're determined to beIieve...
that this particuIar network is some eviI empire...
Iooking to spread right-wing propaganda, that stiII doesn't change the fact...
that we are in this room today because a principaI...
is shutting down the expression of ideas...
simply because he disagrees with the content.
lf anything needs a champion today...
it's the First Amendment.
ln a recent poII, haIf of today's high schooI students...
thought newspapers shouId get government approvaI of stories before pubIishing them.
The First Amendment has become an endangered species.
And here we have a high schooI principaI practicing censorship.
My, my.
We do have a probIem.
There is nothing in the Iaw...
to support Mr. Bombay's request...
that he be assisted in his quest to die.
And that's what this is- assisted suicide.
Now, we hear a lot of talk...
about personaI autonomy.
But there is a sanctity to Iife, Your Honor.
A state has interest in that sanctity.
lf we erode that in any way...
weII, we make the idea of suicide more acceptabIe.
Perhaps more conceivable for the troubled teenager...
or the depressed mother.
You say suicide in some situations is an option.
But we have an overriding state interest and a humane one...
in not sending that message.
- You- - That was beautifuI. Now sit.
At the risk of sounding immodest...
l am one of the greatest Iawyers...
possibly the greatest, to grace the courtrooms of this commonwealth.
Andjust the possibility ofbeing able...
to stiII try cases in the 22nd century-
Uh-
l have A.L.S.
In a few months, I'll lose motor control-
controI of my boweIs.
My brain wiII begin to-
And in a year or so, l'II be dead.
Legends shouldn't die like that.
l don't want to die Iike that.
Cryonics might not work.
But a hundred years ago...
nobody was taIking about cIoning or the human genome.
And a hundred years from now, who knows what's possibIe?
I truly...
truIy Iove Iife.
And the chance to be Iiving again...
seems preferable...
to eternaI nothingness.
And, uh, weII, [ ChuckIes ]
what Red Sox fan wouIdn't jump at the chance to Iie next to Ted WiIIiams?
l reaIize, Your Honor...
that no judge wouId do what l'm asking for.
Do it anyway.
Why didn't you teII me you were sick?
Because l'm a tree.
When l faII, l want it to be in a forest.
What the heII's that mean?
lt means l didn't want anybody to know.
l don't want to be pitied.
- AII l want is to be- - Denny Crane.
Mine's bigger.
You know...
l've aIways admired you, MiIton.
l'm not dead yet.
When is the judge gonna ruIe?
He said by tonight.
l grew up watching WaIter Cronkite.
lt was a time the news seemed to be fair...
objective, trusted.
ln fact, whenever we doubted...
the bIather coming out of the poIiticians' mouths...
it was the press we turned to to get a sense of the truth.
WeII, WaIter Cronkite has definiteIy Ieft the buiIding.
When it comes to credibility...
big media is dead.
Networks pander.
Some to conservatives, others to IiberaIs.
This past election,you could turn to one channel to see President Bush ahead.
Turn to another to see Kerry Ieading.
RidicuIous.
And l agree with Mr. Shore.
It's probably more about money than ideology.
And being about money...
weII, why shouIdn't networks be free to adopt a bias...
in hopes of attracting a bigger audience?
This is America.
Mr. Harper...
l reaIize times have changed in the high schooIs as weII.
Hate vioIence is on the rise.
Administrators have to be freer to curtaiI students' civiI Iiberties...
incIuding disruptive speech.
But attaching a device to a television...
that bIocks out a certain network because of the content...
that seems to go too far.
lt's censorship, sir.
And l can't Iet it stand.
The motion for the pIaintiff is granted.
[ Gavel Raps ]
l don't know what to say, Mr. Shore.
- You were incredibIy briIIiant. - Yes.
lf there's any retribution at the schooI, Iet us know.
Yeah, l wiII. Thank you both.
Your country thanks you.
- My country thanks me. - Yeah.
This is where he gives his ruIing.
Thank you.
Mr. Bombay, it seems ironic, if not indecent...
that the state's interest in preserving Iife...
shouId mandate that you die a wrenching and painfuI death...
rather than be frozen in hopes of fnding a cure.
But that is the Iaw...
as it stands today.
We live in a country that celebrates individual liberties and personal autonomy.
But when it comes to controIIing your own destiny...
this is a freedom that does not yet ring.
I will pray for you, but I cannot grant you your request.
Your motion is denied.
God bIess you.
l'm sorry.
We can appeaI. Next time l'II cIose.
That's aII right. That's aII right. l'm heading for Arizona.
Try my Iuck with the courts down there.
MiIton, no court anywhere is going to ruIe in your favor.
[ Milton ] Even so, there's a cryonics facility there.
- Whenever the time comes- - Do you know anybody in Arizona?
No. And that's the point.
l don't want to deteriorate in front of my-
CIearIy you're not incIined to foIIow my advice, but do not go off to die aIone.
Hey, you Iive your way, ShirIey. l'II die mine.
l'm entitIed to be remembered for-
Uh, thank you both for your efforts.
MiIton! MiIton!
- We go way back, you and l. - [ ChuckIes ]
Let's not get carried away. We were worthy adversaries...
occasionaI drinking buddies.
But it's not as if we had great affection for one another.
Anyway-
We'II see you, MiIton.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. See ya.
See ya, Den.
Good-bye, my friend.
Good-bye. Bye.
- l'm sorry. - Hey.
PeopIe get oId, get sick. lt happens to everybody.
How cIose were you?
lt's not that we went that deep.
lt's we went-
Way back?
You can be Iarger than Iife, just not death.
- He went off to Arizona? - Yeah.
l reaIIy admired him more than-
You go through Iife and you never teII peopIe...
how much you care about 'em when-
PeopIe shouId probabIy do that more, you know?
l care about you.
l wasn't fishing for that.
l fish for steeIhead, not mush.
l care about you, Denny.
You don't have to say it back.
Wasn't pIanning to.