Grateful Dead would've ended anyway.

GRATEFUL DEAD: Bill Says Jerry Would Have Quit

Ex-Grateful Dead drummer Bill Kreutzmann says Jerry Garcia would have probably quit the Grateful Dead if he hadn't died in 1995. Kreutzmann tells Rolling Stone, "I think that Jerry had gotten kind of bored with the Grateful Dead, and it was sort of like a marriage that had maybe gone on too long. And other people in the band wanted to start to express themselves in their bands and so forth and so on, that I'm pretty sure Jerry would've stopped playing in the Grateful Dead. I think a lot of it, I hate to say, was really a financial obligation. He needed to earn the money for some things and that's too bad."