You have no way to quantify the suffering without having been there or at least seen the suffering of someone who has. I don't believe the form of the sufferin

You have no way to quantify the suffering without having been there or at least seen the suffering of someone who has. I don't believe the form of the suffering matters, only the untreatability of whatever is causing the suffering. It has to come down to the person--at what point do they feel the suffering is too much, that whatever remaining life they have isn't worth it. Everyone is going to draw the line at a different place and I don't believe there is a right or wrong. I dislike not having the doctors involved, though--many people won't know if there's something that can be done or not.