Painful or Painless Death?
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Is very easy, as you might know our body has a a thing that is called nervous system,Which is the one who allows us to perceive and sense everything around while we are alive and that includes pain.\n When we became sick Nervous System plays an important role, in our bodies by increase the area affected feeling pain or in lack of sensations such as when we have flu or cold  and we can't smell or taste as well as when we are healthy.\n Another example is:\n if you develop prostate cancer you will die in a huge pain  because the prostate is surrounded by many  terminal nerves.\nIn the opposite way if you die of cancer in the intestine you won't feel pain at all because  that area lack of nerves.\nIf you became quadruplegic the pain won't affect all you body, but from a heart attack you will die fast but in pain because all your body enter in a shock stage until you'll collapse.\n When people fall in comma or vegetable stage they can't feel anything their brain is in total shock( but in this topic are many controverses that points to two sides)\nWhen comatose persons came back to normality they don't remeber anything not even sorrow so they can't give testimoniy and that indicate to experts that their nervous system was blocked at that moment so if  some relatives of a comma patient decide disconect the artificial machine that help them to still alive is when  the experts will say  that THEY DIED IN PAINLESS.\nSo in order to understand better or nervous system experts can determinate from people who experience pain and people who doesn't
92247
Hmmm to die of thirst I hear is very very painful and very slow.  To die from lack of oxygen is probably scary and painful as well but it would take less than 60 seconds before you just passed out and died in peace.\n\nI prefer air!
486991
I believe passive and active should both be allowed. When someones life is torture, if it be mental or physical pain, they should be allowed to end their pain.\n\nAnyone who bases their answer on religion needs to realize that this is a serious issue, and should be taken seriously.
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Execution certainly isn't unusual--it has been commonly done since the beginning of written history.  Cruel?  Well, there is the real question.  Dying painfully would be cruel.  The debate here is whether dying peacefully is cruel, justified, etc.  Some are worried about people being executed, then being found not guilty after the execution is completed.
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in your sleep or suddenly without pain
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If you can choose to die because you are in pain, then why can't I get the court to have you killed because I say you are in pain.  What if you are deaf, should you be killed?  What if you were born blind?\n\nIt's legal to kill your child, even if it isn't in any pain.  Why not kill your grandfather too?  He's a burden on the state collecting that social security isn't he?  He's only got a few years left anyway, and he has trouble walking right?  SURELY HE MUST BE IN PAIN.  Will the judge agree?\n\nYou broke your ribs playing football and you have no insurance?  It might be your time to go!  No officer, I didn't murder him.  He was in pain and he wanted it to end.\n\nWhen he received her divorce papers, he said he wished he was dead.  There were three witnesses present, so she ran him over with his truck.\n\nOne thing can and will lead to another...\n\nEuthanasia doesn't need to be legal.  If you do it to yourself, then what are they going to do, prosecute your body?  If it were legal, the court could decide who it could be done to.  I don't know about you, but I don't want the court making a decision like that for me.
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The easiest way to die is peacefully and a very old age following a life lived with honesty and integrity, after having had great fun surrounded by friends.\n\nThat way nothing will ever wipe the smile from your face!
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VERBAL    DIARHEA!!\n\n\nNothing is sacred,,,,prove it oh GOD  we have waited for two thousand years, enough is enough!\n \nIF THERE WAS A GOD THERE WOULD BE NO HURT\nTHERE WOULD BE NO PAIN\nTHE SUFFERING WE FEEL WHEN WE HAVE BEEN  HURT IS NOT  FAIR.\n\nI had bad news just three hours ago and this confirms the fact that there is no GOD!!!
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No.  In this day and age NO ONE should die in pain.  That's what hospice is for.  The hospice team will be able to help the patient live their final days, weeks, months nearly pain free.  \n\nHospice DOES NOT euthanize patients....just helps to make them comfortable.  I would NEVER be in favor of euthanasia.....the hour of our death is in God's hands.
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You mean there is a good way to die??!! Is that an oxymoron? I noticed that the concensus is " In your sleep". Actually I think a lethal arrythmia would be my guess, you know something like V-tach or  V-fib. You would  just pass out and never wake up.
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So bad that either:\n\n1. You will feel extreme pain if there is slight movement;\n\n2. You will not feel anything at all because you will be paralyzed.
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Neither.  I choose not to live my life in fear, and there is nothing to fear in death, since death is enivitable.
771543
I have a neuro/muscular disease and live with chronic pain that I take daily medication for, kidney stones and have suffered from an open femur fracture, but I still think the worst pain is that of a broken heart. It has been proven that people can die of a broken heart [for example when a spouse dies and the other dies with in 6 months a broken heart is considered a contributing factor] I have also had the unpleasantness of suffering one when my mother died. She and I were very close and I still miss her very much 12 years later but my father was worse, he died 5 months [on the same day of the month at the same time of day] after she did and his cardiologist listed a broken heart as a contributing factor.  I have had more pain than I care to talk about but the pain of my mom dying was and is the worse I have ever delt with.
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death especially of my loved ones
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The worst pain imaginable, and then some.\n\n12 hours before death, one would feel the unbearable thirst and weakness. The quest for water is eminent.\n\n6 hours before death, the thirst is gone, but one might feel like a thousand knife pierced into one's head. The sight is partially reduced, and will see spots.\n\n3 hours before death, the pain escalates to the max. One would suffer the loss of logic, accompanied by the loss of balance, loss of sense of direction. Couldn't tell the time and couldn't recognize other people.\n\n1 hour before death, the pain is gone. Because one couldn't feel a thing, not even one's own toe. Can only see colors but coldn't recognize the object, and many of the past experiences flashing back, and couldn't tell whether it's past memories or present experiences. Delusional.\n\nSeconds before zero hour, all is white. \nThe taste of nothingness and infinity come together.\nZero.
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Feel no pain.  I currently have constant pain due to injuries.  Would be nice to know what it's like to be without it again.
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Unrelenting pain and misery is no gift. \n\nPeople have the right to determine when life should end. After all, nobody denies that courage on the battlefield, or death while saving the lives of others, is worthy of merit in the eyes of man and of man's God. Death is a part of life and living. Nobody should be condemned to pain, dependency and misery. On the other hand, nobody but the person concerned has any right to decide. \n\nAnd that is why every state in the USA and many jurisdictions abroad have legal provisions for living wills and health care proxies. Everybody should have one -- even if it is to say that "my life shall be preserved at all costs, so long as there is somebody, some insurance company or some government, prepared and willing to pay for my hospitalization and my doctors' bills.\n\nWhat should happen in a country like the USA where health care and paying for it are private matters is beyond the scope of this Y! Answer. In Canada, and here in Europe at least, making a choice to live does not, in the absence of employer-paid private insurance, condemn one's family to poverty and bankruptcy