Hard choices (part 1)

This week had been a week or hard choices. Not for me neccisarily but i have been thinking ablotu them. What do you do when you are confronted with a decision where either way you lose. I have been watching 24 lately and in the show a deadly virus has been realeaced in a hotel. The long and short of it is that all the people in this hotel will die a very painful death. And once you'r nose starts to bleed (a sign you have the virus) what do you do? How would if feel to know that you are going to die and there is nothing you can do about it, you cant even call your family's because the situation is a secret? So CTU ( counter terrorism unit) offers people suicide pills if they dont want to die a long painful death, and when they make the option avaible to people, you hear screams, the sounds of humans losing hope. An old woman steps forward and takes a pill soon more and more people come up. And i start to think as i watch this 'what would i do?' the idea of swallowing a pill and knowing that you are going to die, could i bring myself to do that? And even though i know all of this is fictional it made me think: if i knew i was going to die and i knew that i could either be in pain for my last hours or take a pill and feel as if i am falling asleep which would i choose?
Thoughtfuly yours,
Alicce