As we age, our friends and family members become fewer and fewer. Some of them die quickly from heart attacks or strokes, and some of them suffer months to years of agonizing treatments only to succumb to disease. But sometimes medicine can defeat diseases or at least prolong your life enough to make the brutal hospital stay worth the effort.

This week we would like to know what you would do if you were diagnosed with a life threatening disease at the age of 70 or older. Would you fight it to the end? Would you eschew medicine and enjoy the last days of your life? Or would you do something in between?