I would like to take this opportunity to thank the LSU community for the love and concern shown for Mike VI during his illness, and for your prayers and support for his medical team. We all felt undergirded by you. Many have asked what happened to accelerate our timetable for Mike's euthanasia. Over the past weekend, he took an obvious turn for the worse. He became very lethargic, inappetent, and showed little interest in interacting with his caretakers. However, our greater concerns were the following: 1) Mike would refuse to enter the night house making medical assessments and additional treatments extraordinarily difficult; 2) He began exhibiting new signs of complications, indicating that the tumor was causing additional damage to his sinus cavity. We could not allow that to go on because it would eventually lead to his suffering. According to our pathologists, both of these concerns appear to have been well founded It was discovered that the cancer had spread to almost every organ in Mike's body, such that it was unlikely that he would have lived more than a few additional days.