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Don't worry about suffering. The high doses of morphine they give to you to alleviate your pain kills you pretty fast along the way of managing pain in the terminally ill cancer patient.

The main thing you need is someone who cares for you looking out for you. Nurses were terribly unreliable to keep the morphine at a steady dose. They would forget to order it from the pharmacy and let it wear off in between doses and cause the patient to feel their body and suffer.

So, you need a private nurse or a family member watching out for your care when you are dying from a painful condition. There is no need for doctors to take up the practice and mindset of killing you. But you need private care to take care of the meds and other comforting tasks to make sure primary care medical staff do not permit you to suffer. Medical ethics focused on allevating suffering is far better than having a medical system where you have to watch to be sure doctors don't kill your family members upon their institutional convince and whim. Have you been paying attention to European doctors denying all care to folks they hate - smokers and fatties? These elitist idiots can not be trusted with an ethical system that gives them permission to rationalize making people suffer and die.

There is no way to look upon dying as easy. There is no easy out just like there is no easy birth. It is life. But we are all afraid of suffering while we die just like all women are scared about giving birth.