They may have called it heart failure, but at the age of 89 wasn’t it more a case of TRO (time ran out).
89 was a pretty darn good run... And after all... Not everybody can be Captain Kirk still going at 95. George Takei is currently 89... I guess we’re still waiting to see who will win in the last in the ‘Last of the original Star Trek actors still standing’ category.
I’m leaning toward Shatner, simply because he has such a positive attitude.
Heck, my wife’s grandmother lived to 100. And, many people survive heart attacks in old age and have years more to live, IF they get good, quick treatment.
An issue here, I will grant you, is that Nichols had dementia. How advanced it was, I don’t know, but if it was really bad, some would claim a quality of life issue. But on FR, do we argue for, say, assisted suicide or even, say, simple withholding of treatment, if one’s quality of life is poor?
“89 was a pretty darn good run... And after all... Not everybody can be Captain Kirk still going at 95. George Takei is currently 89..”
You DESTROY your own argument.