I think about this a lot, mostly in relation to Dr. assisted suicide or ways to make your inevitable end not quite as bad. And I know some will say, you’re going to be dead anyways, but I say my kitty suffer and suffocate for 10 minutes before she died and I would do anything to take that pain from her. This happened years ago and I still have real bad PTSD. Not only did she suffer immensely unnecessarily, but I am too.
A clean painless death is not just for the one dying, it’s about dignity and minimizing undue suffering for all involved.