Not everyone suffers to the same extent or has family and close friends at the end.  The goal should be a life worth living not a continuation of cellular activity.<p>It&#x27;s a failure of empathy to equate emotional pain that was going to happen anyway with the kind of pain drugs can&#x27;t deal with.  I really can&#x27;t equate your stance to anything but sadism on a massive scale.  Suffer, so I can avoid feeling bad for a little while and pretend the end is not so bad.