The Story

After his job was eliminated, Dominick Brocato spent two years looking for work.

The Final Exit Network says mentally competent adults have a basic human right to end their lives. Dick Gordon talks with one of the group's guides, Fran Schindler, about her own serious illness and decision to participate.

Dick speaks with Kurt Skarjune, a retired officer, and Lee Guelff, the brother of a slain officer, about banning mail-order sales of body armor to convicted felons.

A soundscape of the Sonoran desert between Arizona and Mexico, a wasteland of discarded shoes, shirts and empty plastic water jugs.