The example you gave wasn't perfect, but the effect was the same - I was living on borrowed time, and eventually something was going to finish me off. What the condition was is very world-specific so I'm not going to give details, but for simplicity's sake you can assume that if things progressed to their natural conclusion I would have been dead in a very brief period of time.
I was given the choice to see things through to the end - something that would have been easy and quite frankly pleasant for me, because while I may have been dying I wasn't suffering - or to save someone who was going to be useful in carrying out the goals I had wanted to see through.
It was for purely mercenary reasons, and I also had some personal objections to the continued use of what was keeping me alive. But I chose to save the individual and die rather than to try to prolong my own existence.
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I was given the choice to see things through to the end - something that would have been easy and quite frankly pleasant for me, because while I may have been dying I wasn't suffering - or to save someone who was going to be useful in carrying out the goals I had wanted to see through.
It was for purely mercenary reasons, and I also had some personal objections to the continued use of what was keeping me alive. But I chose to save the individual and die rather than to try to prolong my own existence.