> We have a neighbour who works at a health centre with a palliative care
> ward. She once told me that when terminal cancer patients come in the
> first thing they do is take them off all their pain medication. When I
> asked why they would do that she said that the drugs kill them. So....
> what's the problem. They are dying and will be in less pain for a
> shorter period of time before the inevitable outcome. When my father was
> in palliative care we kept pumping up his morphine. He may have died a
> little sooner but he was in a lot less pain.