Reply #23: Untreated pain kills

[Warpy]

It causes people to socially isolate, become depressed and hopeless, and turn to substance abuse or suicide, mostly the latter.

I've dealt with pain all my adult life. As I've gotten older and sicker, I've started to need medication in order to function. You might get to this stage, too.

This isn't a moral issue. Pain is a medical issue and should be treated as such.

If you want to limp around in a haze of moral superiority over the more frail of your fellow mortals, so be it.

Just drop the attitude, thanks.