POV Season 18 Episode 7 The Self-Made Man
- July 26, 2005
Bob Stern, an ailing 77-year-old businessman, calmly weighs the pros and cons of suicide in 'The Self-Made Man,' his daughter Susan Stern's unusual family memoir. The film juxtaposes home movies and comments from family and friends with a July 4, 2001, videotape in which the elder Stern is seen laying out a 'cost-benefit ratio,' as he puts it, on his life. The family opposed suicide but, sighs son Mike, 'I guess he saw himself as a bad investment, and that it was time to sell.'
