I stand corrected about it being difficult (“painful”) for many patients. I would compare it to the “pain” I felt when my girlfriend dumped me. The only woman I ever truly fell in love with.
That’s qualitatively different from the kind of pain I felt as a kid when I stepped on a rusty nail while playing in the yard.
I HAVE seen it first-hand. My wife was a caretaker for years for an aging couple. He had Alzeimer’s. I met him when he still had cogent thoughts. A chemical scientist. Once he was expressing some deep insight about the situation in his native Cuba, but his sentence drifted off in the middle.
My wife told me one of his doctors mentioned once that there was a cure for it that they were not allowed to use.
That’s one reason I oppose putting him to death. It’s a slippery slope. Terry Schiavo. In Amsterdam the oldsters have to put “DO NOT KILL ME” on their drivers license so kill-happy “doctors” won’t “euthanize” them.
That word is a euphemism for killing that got use as a positive for animals. Among humans, it’s the camel’s nose in the tent. Promoters of prenatal infanticide now claim that if the baby born alive in spite of intentions of sacrificing it, killing it or not should come from a discussion between the parents and the doctor.
From there the depravity graduates to “compassionate” sterilization of inferior women who should not reproduce. Sterilization quotas for hospital directors in Peru (a Univision report years back), doctors in Honduras sterilizing new mothers post-partum without their consent or knowledge, sterilizing permanent “gender reassignment” surgery of children even before they reach reproductive age. And Bill Gates’ vaccine push in India that got shut down by the government after they found it sterilized the girls it “immunized”.
To save the world, they had to kill it. But “And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” (Matthew 24:22.