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Yes. No one at all wants to be in the sate my FIL was in for the last year of his "life". He could not talk, he could not even follow your face with his eyes. He was just a shell of a human. He no longer even had the ability to swallow on his own. The nurses or his wife had to feed him like a baby, but even a new born baby know how to swallow. They had to rub his throat get him to swallow food or water. In the end, he would not even do that, and he most likely died of dehydration. It was beyond pointless to put him on life support as his brain had gone away two years earlier.

My uncle died of Multiple myeloma. They tried all the chemo and treatments and nothing really helped. In the end the doctors sent him home with hospice care. He was on the maximum doses of morphine, and if they gave him more, it would have killed him. He would scream in agony when they rolled him over enough to change the soiled sheets. That is even a worse torture than my FIL endured as no one wants to suffer endless agony. I always try to remember him as the strong vigorous man that was a Methodist Minister, not that version that looked like the Gollum in Lord of the rings with shrunken face and body ravaged by cancer.

So yes, in medical end of life situations, death is far better than dying in crippling pain from cancer.

We need to change the laws to allow it.
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