Jerry Falwell and sudden cardiac death

JAMA did an excellent “Clinical Crossroads” last week about AICD’s and cost effectiveness. It sounds like everybody would benefit from these litle miracle workers… that is, if you dont mind eating dinner, and all the sudden “JOLT”!

A good death at a good time–would he have benefited to survive his heart disease only to die a lingering decline with dementia?

Nobody gets out alive, and he remained functional and able to direct his own fate (controling the degree to which he deals with trolls like the above) to the end. What is there to improve on?