Simon told NBC News's Maria Shriver that despite his terminal diagnosis, his final months had been happy.
Perhaps it's because the most expensive health care is so often delivered in the last months of terminal illness, and doesn't seem to result in a high quality of life.
Advocates of the measure portrayed it as a way to help people suffering from excruciating pain during the last months of a terminal illness.
David Bowie only discovered his cancer was terminal three months before he died, according to a documentary marking the anniversary of the superstar's death.
When Viktor's country falls into chaos, his passport is invalidated, and this seemingly hapless man is stuck in a J.F.K. terminal for months — a highly unlikely situation, as it's presented here, propped up with much bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo.
Exclusion criteria were acute myocardial infarction or stroke within the last 6 months, terminal renal failure or any kind of cancer.
(For now, I'm sticking with the bank's terminal on a month-to-month basis while I try to make time to look for a better deal).
Bowie died last January after an 18-month battle with liver cancer, which he learned was terminal only three months before his death.
Hospice workers help people through the final weeks and months of terminal illness, easing dying people's pain and fear, bolstering their exhausted families.
David Dillahunty, 48, an executive in the toy industry, passes through the terminal every few months on business trips from California.
William Jimeno a 37-year-old from Chester was only on the job as a detective at the terminal for nine months when Sept. 11 struck.
