He has a year to live because his heart is failing? What about a heart transplant?
There may be medical reasons why he can’t be a heart transplant candidate.
As I understand if from having a relative who had to have one, you first have to have a donor who is a good match in terms of blood type and size. Then it depends on where you are on the list. Obviously, the sicker you are the higher you are on the list. Unless you are too sick. If you’ve got other health problems, or if you are just so weak from having a bad heart for so long,and may not survive, you get pushed down the list, so that people who are more likely to survive will get any donor heart.
And if you get sick enough, you get taken off the list completely.
About two years ago, Valerie Harper announced she was about to die due to a brain tumor, I think. She’s still with us!