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I would want everything, or you know, i'm not a person who would want to be wheelchair bound. >> a tough conversation. a great point. what happens, though, arthur. in the hours after we have this 32-year-old man, they bring him to consciousness out of sedation to be able to say no, i don't want to live. what happens in those hours until the point of death? what's discussed? the are there papers that are signed? >> brooke, it probably doesn't require signatures. his oral statement twice, once to the family, once to the doctors, probably would have done it. the family will gather. they're going ...

Have to be an old, old family to face life and death decisions. >> it is a reminder to have that conversation with your loved ones soon. arthur, thank you so much. we of course, wish the family well in such a horrendous time. we'll be right back. dad! dad! katy perry is coming to town. can we get tickets, pleeeeease??? tickets? hmm, sure. how many? well, there's hannah, maddie, jen, sara m., sara b., sa -- whoa, whoa. hold on. (under his breath) here it comes... we can't forget about your older sister! thank you, thank you, thank you! seriously? what? i get 2x the thankyou points on each ticke...

>> wow. i got to looking into that, and it was -- >> some of it is criminal. >> you're not putting hepatitis "b" in an infant. that's crazy. that is a shot for sexually transmitted disease. what? in a baby? >> as parents, we need to be a whole lot more serious about this in being aware of what is good and what isn't. and you don't take the word of the guy that's trying to give shot about what's good and what isn't. >> it's pretty clear. vaccines are one of the greatest success stories of modern medicine. one that remarkably finds itself under threat in the 21st century from denialists across t...

Much easier to scare a population than to unscare them. >> right. >> once you have infected a group of people with this information, it's very, very difficult to then get them to stop thinking about that. >> and part of this, and part of this, arthur, speaks to me about the way we think about medical authority, and i think there's a fine line between healthy distrust of medical authority, healthy distrust of necessarily what, for instance, the pharmaceutical industry wants you to believe about, for instance, restless leg syndrome or whatever new malady they made up to sell drugs and fullout qu...