eldrley piggy buddy died,should I get him new pal

[Cucumber]

I adopted my oap (old age piggy) from my niece. His buddy died in my nieces care two years or so ago. He is five-six years old and has "calciated" cysts under his jaws (basically they turned to bone and are inoperable). He has not that long to live (between 6months to an unlikley two years). Would it be in his interest to find him a new piggy pal, or just be his pal myself. Benny wants Cucumber's final years to be as pleasant, peaceful and pain free as is possible.

(BennyCucumber)
Cucmber's owner Benny

ps; how do you know when its the end, or is just intuition? My dog told me with eyes that cried "no more".

Sorry if there are threads on this subject, but I could not find any.

[Bellatrix]

I had to have one of my old boars put to sleep on Tuesday. The vet I took him to was pushing antibiotics as hard as she could, inspite of the prognosis being .....[FONT=Arial]"Treatment with antibiotics is occassionally successful but a guarded prognosis should be given."[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial]He was a miserable pig. The noise he'd made when I got home from work was not a squeek I'd ever heard before - and being a house pig all his life I knew him very well. I decided that messing him about (potentially for another week) wasn't fair on him and his quality of life. It's the hardest decision I've had to make whilst keeping pets (previous pigs have slipped away overnight) but for him it was the right one. I think in his way he'd been attempting to let me know how grotty (not quite the right work I know, but I'm struggling) he was.... [/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial]Not sure about the companion thing. I'm left wondering what I do with my gerriatric lone boar now.....[/FONT]