I don't know why I'm shocked. The man is a class act himself, and doctor-assisted suicide is something I'm in favor of, especially after seeing my grandmother be put through agonizing test after agonizing test when all she wanted was pain medications and hydration to the end. I understand that doctors have an obligation to help the sick and dying, but at some point, you're prolonging the inevitable. At some point, modern medicine is the only thing keeping a person alive, when even the will has gone, and that goes beyond the Hippocratic Oath. What value is there to prolonged life if that life is spent in hospice without the will to even live at all?

TL;DR Sir Pratchett, I salute you. You are a class act and if this helps you to remain happy and worry-free for the remainder of your life (however long that might be) then I pray that your decision is worth all the scrutiny you will endure in the coming days/months/years.

When I have some spare money, I need to buy a couple more of his books.