Dr. David Fajgenbaum

Like, you know, there are people that will say like, I want to die at 70 years old because I don't want society to have to take on my burden.

Like even if I'm not sick, like I just should die at 70 years old so society doesn't have to pay for my costs.

And then there's other people who are like, we're only on this earth once, so I'm going to squeeze out all the time I can get.

I'm going to live as long as I can get.

I don't think that I'm sort of on either camp.

I think you can be reasonable and decide.

I mean, I should also share about a patient recently that –

that I had helped to discover a repurposed drug for.

And I mean, it got him out of the ICU.

And I remember sitting with my team and jumping up and down.

And like, when we got the news that, that he was responding to this medicine, it was like, what was the sickness he had?

He has calcium, the same exact subtype that I have.

Uh, it was just, I was so excited.

I remember I cried tears of joy.

I was so happy that we found this drug for Paul.

And, um,

The next couple weeks went by and he kept getting better and he got out of the hospital and I got in touch with him and he explained to me, David, this drug got me out of the hospital, it turned everything around, it saved my life, but I feel horrible on it.

It makes me nauseous, I'm vomiting all the time, it's controlling my disease, but I don't like the way that I'm living.

And he was a 70-year-old gentleman and he decided to go off that medicine

for the exact reason you mentioned, Latif, is I want to spend the time that I've got with my kids and with my wife.