“Would you want to do without the drugs if you were in horrible pain with no prognosis of survival?”
That is a question I have. Is it better to extend the life with less pain or shorten the life with more pain. Do we have the same amount of pain with the question of how best to endure it?
I think the pain is the result of what the disease is doing to you. Pain killing drugs are not a way of extending life - they don’t ‘fix’ anything except pain. They simply make what’s left of life tolerable.
I think it would be the height of cruelty to forbid them to someone dying, and the height of stupidity to forego them.
I believe that most people are not really afraid of dying - they’re afraid of pain.