[wagglebee]

Sometimes palliative care involves increased dosage of pain medication.

And so long as this is done gradually and properly the patient will develop a tolerance to the increased dosages and not die.

However, the point still remains that some of the people who Kevorkian killed suffered from depression, which is not physically painful and generally treatable.

[BykrBayb]

Obviously, I have no self control. I was going to stop posting half an hour ago, but here I still am. Maybe if you all just “Do not post to me” for a while, eventually I'll get bored and leave.

; )

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

correction: depression can be very very painful and can also increase the medical issues pain. this is not a simple thing to treat.