I tire so of hearing people say,
Let things take their course.
Tomorrow is another day.
I do not need my freedom when I’m dead.
I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism - It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out

We will all choose how we die eventually - either actively, through an advance directive, or by default, through the substituted judgment of others...