Life Goes On - Season 4 - Eps 15: Bedfellows
A fellow AIDS patient named Chester (Richard Frank) encourages Jesse to learn to live rather than give up and die. He holds game shows with the other patients, makes fun of the sugar-coated remarks doctors make every time a new patient comes in, and sings, too. Jesse objects to Becca's inclination not to go to Brown University, saying that he would be too much of a burden to her. Chester dies when he races Jesse on the hospital roof.
About Life Goes On

Title: Life Goes On
First Air Date: 1989-09-12
Last Air Date: 1993-05-23
Status: Ended
Rating: 6.4/10 (from 25 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 4
Total Episodes: 83
Network: ABC
Genres: Drama, Family
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
Life Goes On is a television series that aired on ABC from September 12, 1989, to May 23, 1993. The show centers on the Thatcher family living in suburban Chicago: Drew, his wife Elizabeth, and their children Paige, Rebecca, and Charles, who is known as Corky. Life Goes On was the first television series to have a major character with Down syndrome.
Cast

Bill Smitrovich
Andrew "Drew" Thatcher

Patti LuPone
Elizabeth 'Libby' Thacher

Chris Burke
Charles "Corky" Thatcher

Kellie Martin
Rebecca 'Becca' Thacher

Chad Lowe
Jesse McKenna

Tracey Needham
Paige Thatcher

Monique Lanier
Paige Thatcher

Elizabeth Berkley
Selena

Josh Lucas
Dylan

Andrea F. Friedman
Amanda Swanson