End of life question

[kimba1]

Is it ethical to let people live in pain in thier final time? How wrong would it be to use drugs to lessen the pain?

Marijuana,opium etc. would definately help but it's not quite that legal at the moment. I curious what the objections would be.

[Xavier_Onassis]

So far as I know, it is legal to prescribe morphine and other painkillers to terminal patients. When I delivered Rx´s for a pharmacy many years ago, I recall several terminal patients that I took morphine Rx´s to.

[kimba1]

Actually morphine is kinda weak in some cases. i know i was given the maximum doses and it barely worked on me after three hours of agony.  I think all this anti- drug think has limited the progress to pain management in this country.

[BT]

Kimba always supplement your morphine with NyQuil and massive quantities of vodka.

[Plane]

Pallitive care.

Hospace care is more liberal with narcotics because death is near enough that there are minimal long term health effect or addiction to be concerned with.
Pain relief doctors have to be cautious ,   he law is strict and criminals are eager to exploit precription drugs.

[kimba1]

I remember taking steriods for my feet. The pain was not gone,but it made it beyond manageable. I felt like i can run again. It's ashame our medicine cannot do that for all our patients.

The steriods I took can only be used once a year or it'll atrophy my muscles. I totally get why athletes love this stuff.

I prefer liquid nuquil over the pills, probly the alcoholic in me