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Andrew was a 69-year-old Singaporean businessman of mixed parentage who grew up adhering to a mix of his paternal Chinese and maternal Indian cultural beliefs. He maintained these conservative beliefs throughout his education in England and even chose to conform to his family’s custom of an arranged marriage upon the completion of his studies. Lynette passed away in her late 40s, leaving Andrew to support their three children who were by then in their 20s. Following the marriage of his youngest daughter, Andrew remarried and had a son who turned nine when Andrew was diagnosed with lung cancer. It was an aggressive cancer that progressed unchecked to involve his brain, bone and liver despite multiple lines of chemoradiotherapy, resulting in Andrew being pronounced incurable. Anticipating this, Andrew did not waste time setting goals to maximise his quality of life. He voiced the wish to remain …