“[H]e decided he couldn't continue living that way… he wrote on July 28, 2012… what he called a 'final letter' to his loved ones , explaining why he wanted to die” (62-63). This shows that after all these years he was ready to say goodbye to life. Although this did not initially happen, the letter was still written and the wife neglected it thinking that she was just stressed at the time. As time went by it went back to being the same as always. However, his wife continued to watch over him and was ready to help him in his decision to die at any moment. The author wrote this to show the difficult times people go through in a situation like this and how if he was actually ready to end his life, it would have been with the help of assisted suicide and medications. Wanting the public to believe that assisted suicide can be beneficial to people who want it and have the ability to access it. Brooke's desire to give up his life happened again some time later and this time his wife and his caretaker at the time managed to disable him from everything that kept him alive and breathing. While he waited to die nothing happened as his wife later told him that he could function properly for a short period of time without all his machines and tubes being intact. “In the end he announced that he wanted to turn off all the machines. He wanted it