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LOL at spending your last month with schlubby WSOP grinders versus spending that time with your loved ones before medically helsing.

Definitely made society more aware though.
I didn't quite understand this, either. It's possible he saw himself as a burden to his family in that final month, and didn't want them seeing him in that condition on a daily basis. Recall that, in the WSOP Main, he had to abandon a good stack when he deteriorated so badly during the event that he couldn't manage to return from dinner. He had some kind of nurse/assistant with him at WSOP, but even with that, he wasn't able to complete the event.

In any case, the fact of the matter is that sarcoma awareness/research was important to him, and I received $500 from a guy who had previously scammed him. So now sarcoma research has another $500.
Not uncommon at times for terminal cancer patients to commit suicide or in his case assisted suicide. My dad deliberately ODd on his opoid pain meds back in Sept 2000 when he was at Stage IV-B of lung and lyrangeal cancer which had come back massively on him in July 2000.