Question: Hi there! A really good friend of mine (41 years old) is suffering from different heart diseases. News of today is a heart function of 10-15 percent. Half a year ago it was 30 percent. He has a lot of water in his lungs and sometimes even in hands, arms and legs. Sometimes his stomach looks like that of a pregnant woman (we are not sure if that is the water?) A month ago he had a heart attack but recovered after being hospitalized for a while (he had a lot of heart attacks for the last couple of years). Because of mental illness and the abuse of drugs (he uses speed from time to time to be able to get out of bed to get something done) and a smoking habit of 20-30 cigarettes a day, they seem to have given up on him. He gets some medicine, but it makes him extremely tired and therefore he quits it from time to time. His general health and eating habits are bad. He has been in and out of the hospital a lot in the last 6 months. I am a close friend and it is so painful to just be watching this. Just two weeks ago there was a small improvement, but today I realized that this is not going to get better. We have a lot of things to get in order, how long time will he have left? I know this is a very difficult answer, but what do statistics say? I can't change his bad habits, what can I do for him to make his last time better?