Wonderful book and the tapes are even more wonderful and relevant today.
Is Milton Friedman still alive? I think he is. Great man.
BTW, all the episodes of the 1980 series and the 1990 update are available for free viewing here:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=free+to+choose
Yes he is still alive. On this article's website there is a link to President Bush's remarks at a party for his 90th birthday in 2002.
Yes, Friedman is still alive.
Last year, he endorsed a call by economists to look into decriminalizing pot:
http://www.prohibitioncosts.org/endorsers.html