we did use it a lot in our playground vocab back in the 80's. I still use it every now and then but only in reference to myself or a very close friend. You have to be careful with that one, I recognize that.
I think that if you were dying that planning having the dog around would be tough especially since I don't really see my life ending in some sort of gradual "come here Nadi" sort of way. It would be me getting hit by a bus or something and well, we can't really plan for that now can we?
one only need to hear the story of Hachi to know that dogs really are confused when their master isn't around all of a sudden.
That is a good point. I have a feeling many of us aren't going to have the luxury of making all the necessary plans when it is our time to go.