Douglas Reingold, loving husband, father to teenagers, and an engineer by trade, has a close call riding his motorcycle one day. He's struck by a tortured thought: how would his wife and children's lives go on if he were dead? Obsessed with the answer to this question, he persuades the showrunner of a reality TV show called Do Us Part, devoted to documenting stories of terminal illness, to stage his dying. He is propelled into a world of intrusive...