I cannot fault any of you for your responses - and you were indeed successful in preventing my gaining knowledge of my fate.
It is a most... frustrating experience to not be able to satisfactorily communicate one's thoughts. But I have found that with emotional subjects, there is often no precise way to convey a private, subjective experience.
[ And then he gives it a moment of consideration... and offers a small smile. Not of happiness, but of acceptance and, perhaps, comfort. ]
There was no other way, and that is not the fault of any member of our crew. I would certainly prefer to have had more time to spend with those for whom I care, to share in the remainder of your lifetimes, but my potential lifespan has often been yet another dividing aspect of my nature. Even if my systems were to eventually become fully degraded, that likely would have not occurred for at least several centuries. In a way, perhaps I am now as close to being human as could have ever been possible.