Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. - Isaac Asimov

he would much prefer to see it done a week before his death rather than a week after.

In my fiction I am careful to make everything probable and to tie up all loose ends. Real life is not hampered by such considerations.

He was going mad and knew it, and
somewhere deep inside a bit of sanity was screaming, struggling to fight off
the hopeless flood of black terror. It was very horrible to go mad and know
that you were going mad — to know that in a little minute you would be here
physically and yet all the real essence would be dead and drowned in the
black madness. For this was the Dark — the Dark and the Cold and the Doom.