> Suffering can be alleviated Sometimes. I somewhat knew someone who committed suicide by dehydration. She understood the situation: broken hip, she wasn't g

> Suffering can be alleviated Sometimes. I somewhat knew someone who committed suicide by dehydration. She understood the situation: broken hip, she wasn't going to live long enough to ever do anything more than lay in bed. She chose not to. Sure, the broken hip could have been treated but it wasn't even hurting her. The immobility was too much. And I watched my father die of cancer. There was a period where he could be lucid and in pain, or comfortable but out of it. And then there was a period where he had no ability to make memories--if it wasn't in front of him it didn't happen. And in the end it took his remaining kidney function. We know there was a problem but he was too out of it to explain his distress. And note that suffering can take forms other than pain. Fundamentally, most slow forms of dying that don't take your mind will make life quite unpleasant before they kill you.