In Chinese medicine you exit into life and enter into death. They believe there are worse things than death: perishing is worse than death.
Oftentimes the law (and the doctors) are keeping people in a state of perishing.
I have read that every medical doctor keeps a pill in a secret cabinet so they won't have to perish. Why can't we all have access, i say.
Only useful bit of info i have to add to this is that doctors can't measure pain - so if you exaggerate it enough, you may just get given enough morphine to slip away.
They used to do that out of kindness. pre-Shipman i think, but what do i know. Loved the way you introduced this with the dog story second. It's 50 claps from me, A🙏💚