All we really have is the journey of life, not our bodies, and certainly not the outward trappings.

When afflicted some of us will ask for help, some will beg, others will demand more and more, and yet others will give of themselves until the end. Each way is entirely appropriate. Thus to be presented options in a time of crisis is proper. To recieve intelligent professionally informed options, options which match our temperment as the patient, this is both rational and appropriate action by a care-giver.

As a man fortunate enough to have held the hand of two fiancees, each on their one-way journey while cancer held the other, please allow me to applaud Dr Glenn Rothfeld on his attitude toward his patients and their quality of life. As I learned from my dear friends, the experience of life, of sharing life – or of going it alone when it is such time – can not be judged right or wrong by any one but ourselves.

Again, we are here to live, to teach, and to learn.