I want to take a pause here to give you a quick preview of what's airing today on Dr. Phil.

Take a listen.

I will die upstairs in my bedroom that I share with my husband.

Is it acceptable to ask for a physician's aid in ending your life?

She's dealing with a time's pain that not even morphine can alleviate.

Within five minutes of breathing, taking that medication, she fell asleep.

Are you okay, boy?

When menacing is used to pause the death, that isn't dying, it's killing.

She's the arrogance of that statement.

Check your local listings and for more on today's television episode, log on to Dr. Phil.com.

Now back to Phil Endoblanks.

Last week on Phil Endoblanks, there was this very, very sad study that asked a question

of what percentage of Americans die too early because they've made bad decisions.

And the results show that these numbers increasing all the time.

And the question is why are we becoming dumber?

The answer is no, what is happening is that the environment is becoming better at tempting

us.

Think about donuts.

Donuts are really getting better.

Right.

And what they mean by getting better is not that they're getting healthier, they're getting

more tempting.

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