The only sign something's not quite right, Armstrong says, is the way it affects his mental state. He says he lives \"under a cloud of depression\" that is triggered unexpectedly.<\/p>\n
\"The physical stuff is one thing, but the main way it affects you every day is the sadness. I let myself grieve every few weeks, then I just dust myself off and get on with it,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"The thing is with this that it could be the next test I have [when my medication will be ineffectual], or the one after, or the one three months later where it's going to have overtaken the medication and we need to be looking at other options.\"<\/p>\n
It's then, when his quality of life begins to deteriorate, that he wants to be given the opportunity to die how he wants.<\/p>\n
Armstrong says he wants to go out on horseback, surrounded by his wife and family.<\/p>\n
Based on recent polling, he's confident that choosing how he wants to die is an opportunity he'll get.<\/p>\n
\"I'm not afraid of death, because I know when my life is finished it'll be according to my set of rules,\" he said.<\/p>\n
\"I'll be able to say, 'Hey, I don't feel curling up in a ball in palliative care in some shitty hospital somewhere amping up the morphine until I slowly drift into unconsciousness'.\"<\/p>\n
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