[donatj]

Billions of years of evolutionary survival instinct would have my body grasping at all straws, releasing chemicals and likely having negative affects on my physiology and mental state for the rest of my life. Clearly that isn’t anything anyone wants.

If I had no memories of the experience, and it had no long term physical affects on me, I would be indifferent, obviously, because I don't know about it.

If I were to die from it, I see no advantage to a painless death over a painful death, other than for those around me. I will have no memory of the incident.

[michaelmrose]

By this logic that no suffering is actionable in any fashion because all who suffer suffer temporarily. This is trivially truth in a nothing actually matters in a long enough run sort of way but not philosophically meaningful.

[msravi]

>> If I were to die from it, I see no advantage to a painless death over a painful death...

Those minutes/hours/days spent experiencing pain do count. You speak as of the after-effects but make it seem that an advantage in living the process itself doesn't count.

That's like saying that we're all going to die anyway and there's no advantage to how we live our lives. So why bother with anything?

[donatj]

> living the process itself doesn't count

What reason do you have to believe otherwise. What does it count towards?

What counts is in missed opportunity. Missed abilities to affect the world around you before you leave. Pain at the very end doesn't alter that much at all.

[msravi]

For all you know, the whole world around you might be a figment of your big and complex imagination, and nothing you do would, in the end, affect it. So what actually matters, (in fact the only thing that matters) is your perception of the world around you (and that includes pain).