"Dr. Death" is .....well.... seriously dead

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The doc told him to get his affairs in order, he had three months to live. Eight years later, he died. In that time, he got to experience becoming a grandfather and seeing the child start kindergarden. He also got to spend many days working in his garden and many nights in bed with his wife. Obviously, he did not choose suicide, but what if he had?

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Sounds like he had ~8 years of good-quality life reasonably free from pain and suffering, right? These sunny days in the garden, seeing grandchild born and off to school, this means he had good control of his faculties and wasn't in pain and was reasonably mobile, right? Sooooo…if you're what-iffing over what if he had chosen suicide upon being told by the doctor he had three months to live, that's a ridiculous question. Nobody's actually proposing any such a thing. To ask what if he'd chosen to kill himself despite good quality of life is as pointless and random as to ask what if I were to kill myself next Tuesday at 8pm, or my mother's next-door neighbor were to kill herself tomorrow at 6:17am, or frozen peas were to start raining down upon Moscow Mills, Missouri next year on March 12th.