It wasn't Markus's choice to die, just to clarify. Markus wanted to live. He didn't want to die. He was given a terminal illness, outside of our control, that we were responsible for deciding how to respond to, how to live with. We've shared with you this morning how we did that.
I can acknowledge that other families, as I indicated earlier, might focus on the suffering and on despair and on how terrible life is going to get, and that can and will lead to a request to die. There were times in Markus's illness when he wanted to die. The pain was a lot. He wanted to die, but immediately the health care providers found ways to address that pain, but not by suggesting to him, “You're right. We're going to give up on you. Here's the option now.” If that would have happened, he very likely would have died way sooner than he did.