Gee I hope he asked her first. You can't change your mind after. Brave? Considerate? Unconsiderate? Cop Out? Now she's burdened with not being able to interact with him at all. A lot of people always say, "if I ever get like that just shoot me" but when they say that they are healthy and I don't think that they are being so literal. Once something affects your life in a big way, you would have to THEN make the call. I guess that was the call he made, sorry no coaches challenge here.
A mans death is more his survivors affair than his own. Personally i think it was/is a cop out. Looking down the barrel never occured to me, all i wanted to see was the fight ahead and me winning. I was my dying mothers caregiver, i was my sick wife's caregiver. NEVER did i once think they were a burden, i cherished/cherish every day with my loved ones, and would do it for as long as it took. What he did was selfish and a crime against God. I've worn the shoes of adversity, this is how we find out who we are, and who the people around us are. If i was going to take my own life it would be because i was the last one left. Brave is fighting the fight, weak is giving up. If he had the strength to pull the trigger, he had the strength to hug and hold his wife.