You want a physicist to speak at your funeral.

[fadedrose]

58. Nirvana

after one has suffered so much physical or mental suffering that life can no longer inflict pain is not an easy trip, so when death comes, there is no pain.

I'd like to do something I enjoy all day, or go shopping, call the kids, make a good supper, enjoy the news, tv, go to bed, snuggle with the dog, and never wake up. None of this "forgetting" the pain stuff. It hardly happens my preferred way, but sometimes it does with an aneurysm or a fatal stroke like sometimes happens with people in sports who overdue....

Death itself is something I am curious about. Can't help thinking there is "something after" and look forward to the passage. The "something after" has nothing to do with religious teachings, it's sort of an instinct most are born with akin to sensing things - like hunger, cold, heat, joy, sadness, and especially need or loss that caused religion to be invented.

I've seen a few people die and saw no sign of pain on their faces at that time. So it was either medication or you are basically right.