My dad was given the "T" word with 6 months or less to live in June 2006. We lost him on August 2,2006. He was a very active 75 year old man, diagnosed with prostate cancer in November of 2004. He went through all the phases of treatment trying to stop it, but it continued to grow into his bones. He didn't believe in the "pill" to end his life, but I think if he would have known what he went through in those last days, that he would have changed his mind. I might be wrong, i'll never know. I do know, that if I am faced with the same choice as you, and as he, that I would indeed take the pill. It will be a year tomarrow that he has been gone, and sometimes all I think about is those last days..not the good days of those 75 years of his. I am still grieving. The great memories are coming to me slowly, and I treasure them. My thoughts are with you.JC