> That's often considered one of the worst ways to commit suicide. I came close to seeing that first-hand some years ago: My (widowed) dad suffered a long, ago

> That's often considered one of the worst ways to commit suicide. I came close to seeing that first-hand some years ago: My (widowed) dad suffered a long, agonizing death from a form of leukemia. I was with him, at his house, for his final week, with a hospice nurse checking in periodically. He refused morphine and instead took a fair amount of acetaminophen; for calories, he drank a lot of beer and V-8 juice mixed together. I warned him about the danger of mixing alcohol and acetaminophen; he immediately perked up, thinking that would be a way for him to end things. He was disappointed when I explained that it wouldn't be a quick death: he'd just wreck his liver and be in even more agony. (He died a few hours later.)