This was repeated to the point of tiresomeness. It was basically a demonstration for attn and self-pity.
Now she's truly old and requires a wheelchair and assistants--but she's now also truly rich. She flies First Class to Scott and White twice every year to go through a week of tests to monitor every little function to the nth degree, she counsels with a team of doctors and frets over all the smallest details. She has many chronic problems, and gathers a few more every year. Then she flies home to Vegas, and her life consists of watching nightclub shows and periodically making her family miserable with all her worries over her failing health and general disappointment with life and the people therein. She has no real relationship with any other human being, since she managed to get most of what would have been her grandchildren aborted, and alienated the grandchildren who survived.
People say one thing, and mean another. When you say, "I wouldn't want to live like that"-- be sure to write it down, so that your grateful relations can send you to Alaska.
There is something to be said though, for the idea that when people don't have a limitation on living they say one thing but when they get to the end they decide they might just like to have every day they have coming to them. I don't see anything wrong with that. I think Nitro has some tough decisions coming up.