I'll have to check but I think this was included in his first fishing guide book that I bought about that time?

This is my idolized way to leave this realm.
I've watched too many friends/family lay in a hospital/nursing home, doped out of their minds and stuck full of tubes and IV's.

They don't even know where they are or who anyone is. Mercifully they sometimes pass quickly but often they linger for a long time especially if they have GOOD insurance.

  IMHO we treat our dying pets better than we do many humans when it's their time to go.

Dying in a place you love would be my preferred way to go if possible. Since that's probably not going to happen, then make it quick and fast.