I have the same diagnoses + 4 arrhythmias (including AFib and bradycardia) and a couple of others, so I'm expecting attempts to persuade me at 2 appointments next week to consent to a pacemaker. I was persuaded by Gemini (Google AI -- not intentionally but just by points conveyed) to do it, but after all I've read here the last couple of weeks, don't think I can face it. Sounds awful. And a year to get used to it and get past constant interference with movement and pain? Ugh.

I'm 80, not a long life left, and LIVING as fully as I can (already limited), not staying alive by any means is my priority at this stage. I don't want to ever have general anesthetic again, because it has taken me an entire year to even partially get my mind, memory, and who I am back after having it twice in less than a month last year. It requires general anesthetic, right?

Sudden cardiac arrest, to me, would be a blessing in that it's a reasonably easy way to go. Many far worse ways. But worse than death is a stroke that puts me in some "care facility." So it is a difficult decision with serious tradeoffs and not one anyone else can or should make for us.