He left 6 kids behind. At the end, he had to have been thinking that if he knew he'd blow all of his money, and still die anyway, his family would have been better off if he had just committed suicide when he first got the news.

That's what I'd be thinking. That's the kind of shithole medical care we get in this country, because both parties think it's more important to use our health as a weapon to manipulate us.