John, I think I know what you mean about placing value on life. At 74 I'm still enjoying life, but I realize that there's not going to be much of it left. My grandfathers died at 60, my father at 76 and my brother at 73. I don't really fear death; I don't even think about it much actually. What I do fear is being old and helpless---at that point it's no longer life, it's just organic endurance. One of my little prayers is "Lord, if I'm stricken, leave me at least one good trigger finger." If I can be fixed, fine, but if not I don't want to have to be hooked up with wires and hoses and pumps just to stay at room temperature. I have a living will that expresses that.
I've told my family that if I'm ever in a terrible accident or suffer a massive stroke or heart attack where I am in a coma, let me go peacefully. I don't want to have to die but once, and there's no point spending thousands of dollars to preserve something that no longer functions. I've thought about getting a tattoo on my chest that reads, "Don't try to be a hero, Doc."
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