People are mortal, which is a point driven home by this series that follows people who are facing their imminent mortality. The terminally ill people on Time of Death are supported by family, friends, health care professionals, and hospice workers. The stories told include those of a single mother with invasive breast cancer; a psychotherapist specializing in death and dying but who, herself, has pancreatic cancer; a veteran with a rare form of cancer; and a young woman who has metastatic melanoma.