I have read a lot about you and your work at Xerox.
Do you enjoy travel? What continents have you been to? What's your favorite country outside the US?
How many hours a day did you sleep per day during your most productive research years? Cos i usually wonder how very productive people seem to achieve much more than others within the same 24 hours we all have.
People should differentiate between terminal illnesses and acute illnesses like heart attacks. For the later, I am sure the OP has no problems with treatment.
The leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra died this week. He was less than a vegetable for 8months until his death.
Here was a man who was larger than life reduced to helplessness. At the age of 78, I am wondering why he was tortured for these 8 months so he would be 'alive'.
I am certain if he had the choice, he would have preferred to go with dignity. Unfortunately, people never want to prepare for such things. When it happens, their end is determined by others.