“If anyone wants to suggest that I, or anyone else who’s gotten to this stage, hasn’t thought long and deeply about this, and if they’ve made the request, hasn’t done it with information, or at the end of the day, conviction — they’re crazy,” Jewett said in the interview, which was published the day he died. “What do people think we do when we’re sick in bed? There’s a lot of time to think and figure things like that out.”
