Some have written that in Biblical times there were no ventilators or feeding tubes to keep people alive (actually feeding tubes have been used for hundreds of years, but have become far more effective for long-term use with advances in plastics). But it is also true that there were no antibiotics or aspirin then either and very few people seem to object to these. But most importantly, there have been amazing advances in palliative pain treatment in the past few decades; pain is a factor in many terminal illnesses, but it can be managed.
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After watching both my father and brother die of cancer I could not agree with you less.