Reply #8: speaking only for myself, it would depend on whether...

[mike_c]

...I had anything going that the additional six months would see to completion, or some other compelling reason. But the reason would have to be REALLY compelling.

Frankly, in that situation, my first impulse is to want to take a quite, comfortable means of suicide to a wonderfully private and remote beach I know in Mexico and spend a couple of months getting my thoughts organized and my journal caught up, then end life on my own terms.