[pwd72s]

How long do you want to live? Not meant as a joke. The desire to keep living changes as the health problems pile up. That doesn't mean one is suicidal, but it does mean you begin to think long and hard about whether or not to undergo a procedure.

My personal example...I have abdominal aortic embolisms, both sides...after reading of the operation to correct these, and considering my age, I decided I'd rather bleed out than go through the pain and long healing process of the operations, assuming I even survived the stress of them. So, I stopped going for the monitoring scans.

It's really the old quality vs. quantity of life debate....something for each individual to decide...