[JohnJL]

I lost a longtime friend last year, an 11-year old american staffie who was my friend through many cities and stages in life. He crashed on me with cancer and we did everything for him, including surgery and similar drug therapy.

For me, in retrospect, both my wife and I have said we should have let him go when it was his time rather than string him along. In our case he simply laid down during a walk home. The following 6 weeks included organ removals, drug therapy and tests. That experience has in fact crossed over into my own will.

It is a very personal decision, none of which is wrong.

His ashes still sit in a box next to the tv, we've not let go of him yet almost two years later.