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>> You think horrifyingly painful medical conditions are extremely rare >Yes. In particular, they are much less of a concern than the epidemic of people killing themselves with opiates. Wow. The only thing I am slightly comforted by is the fact that if you or someone you love lives long enough, you will likely come to regret those words. Because almost all of us will eventually suffer from severe, horrifying pain if we live long enough. I don't want anyone to suffer from severe, chronic or acute pain, but I do appreciate the compassion and enlightenment that usually results from such suffering. By the way, I do agree that he picked a bad example patient, since there are thousands of people with horrific diseases, organic diseases, who are being denied adequate pain relief at the present. Finally, in case it's not clear, it's completely possible to be compassionate to both people with severe chronic and acute pain, as well as to those people who are dying from addiction issues. But as we'll continue to see, eliminating prescription pain medication will do nothing to lower the opiate death toll, since most addicts are dying from illegally manufactured heroin, carfentanyl, etc. |