I’m unqualified to make that decision, and I don’t consider the compassion industry–whose repertoire of treatments included lobotomy and electroshock not too long ago–qualified to make that decision.

If you were Fischer, what would you have chosen? Or could you have chosen?

I’d want to know the tradeoffs and the odds, but I doubt that they can be reliably determined at present. (I believe that progress in this area is desirable and ongoing, but my unknowledgeable impression is that the state of the art is overhyped and inadequate.)
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide. –Dryden

Yes, he was warped. Yes, he said vile things–but he sprayed his venom dispersively; he did not inject it into individuals. He did not leave damaged friends and a family with maimed souls.

RIP. Perhaps somewhere somehow, by means impossible to imagine or verify, the discordant elements of his makeup are now harmonized.