My friend is dying

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I just made friends with an older gentleman. The guy has a lot of character and IS a gentleman. Right after we began our friendship, he got sick. He has brain cancer. He knew he had prostrate cancer for a few years now. He did not want the surgery, so I"m thinking the cancer spread through his body, also to his lungs. This young man has never been sick a day in his life until recently. He's only 64 years old and for the past year has not wanted to live because of money troubles. He says frequently he does not want to die naturally if that means he is going to be bedridden, and has told me of his plan to take a bunch of pills and drive off someplace. It really breaks my heart. He is not that sick yet, and I hope he does not try to do anything stupid. He watched his ex wife die a terrible death from cancer. The chemo treatments were too much for her and got the best of her. Another friend of his just passed from the same thing. Two people, not even two months of each other passed on after suffering in these past three months. Well, really I don't know if they were suffering at the end because they did have hospice so they had the pain meds to keep them comfortable. I am very sad about this and I do not want to lose my new friend, though I know if he does go, hopefully it is to a better place. I guess the only thing to do is pray and hope for healing, and if it is not God's plan for him to be healed, then a speedy death quietly in his sleep so he does not suffer long.