Releif of pain is probably the strongest component of life force, after birth. The fact that the government has yet to manage this, and has been sidetracked by the moronic "war on drugs", is a black mark on society (IMO).
Well said.
A number of years ago when my father-in-law was enduring his last days of terminal cancer, we tried and tried to get his doctor to prescribe enough painkillers to keep him comfortable. Even with the pleadings of family, Hospice, and with the iron-clad prognosis of being terminal, the doctor was reluctant to prescribe enough morphine and other drugs because he "was afraid that he would become addicted" and that it was on the doctor's records how many painkillers that he had prescribed during that reporting period.
I would never allow an animal to suffer with the pain that my f-i-l had to suffer with because of idiotic rules, regulations, and bureaucracy.