Al Roth

So your doctors give you high doses of painkiller.

And when you say that's not enough, they say, all right, we'll give you more.

And then maybe you don't wake up.

I'm enjoying life.

I'm glad to hear that.

I'm enjoying life.

I mean, I've also thought a lot about organ donation, so I'm very prepared to be a deceased organ donor.

There's some intersection between those two things, incidentally.

In places like Belgium, you can have medical assistance in dying that allows you to be an organ donor, you know, that you die in a way that preserves your organs.

And there are people who want that.

But I've thought about it.

And when we moved to California in 2012, we considered at least the possibility that we would grow old here one day.

And so our house is not wheelchair accessible, but it can easily be made wheelchair accessible.

And that had to do with how we did renovations.

The bathrooms are big enough.

So we're enjoying ourselves.

We hope to keep enjoying ourselves.

But I don't think that I want to die at great length and in great pain.

We're an aging population, so I think that not only do more people have a reason to contemplate their own death, but more people know a peer who's died, and certainly parents have died

and relatives, you know, siblings and friends.