I don't know ... I like these story-book endings as much as anybody, but I don't think anyone should count on a charming death - some last words of wisdom and resignation, slipping quietly away from the family that surrounds the bed and into the arms of angels (to the sound of a silver chord). Seems to me that for an awful lot of people, there's much misery and suffering at the end of life. (And it's not their fault).