The sign of death is the absence of signs of life. Pain is one of the signs of life. To make sure that the organism is rather alive than dead, you can check whether there is a reaction to external stimuli, whether the organism can perceive pain. If the organism does not perceive pain, it means that one sign of life has been lost, and the organism is more dead than alive.
The organism uses pain as an indicator of problems, a signal that it needs attention. If you turn off this alarm, the organism cannot heal itself. Medicines can help, but the organism must heal itself.
The organism must be able to recognize the threat on time and eliminate it. The condition of the organism in which the immune system does not respond to a threat is called tolerance. If the organism does not respond to medications, this is also called tolerance.
If the pain is not severe, then one can endure, if the organism is not strong enough and cannot stand the pain, then one resorts to using pain relievers. Some pain relievers are called narcotics because they are addictive. Taking painkillers can dull pain, briefly raise the pain threshold. If the pain threshold is high, then the organism can feel only severe pain, if the pain threshold is low, then the organism begins to experience pain for any reason.
The organism tends to get used to, including to pain relievers, then to increase the pain threshold, one needs to either change the drug or increase the amount of the drug, which means increasing the dose. But it won’t work for so long, because the amount of the drug can reach a level incompatible with life, and death will occur.
Until death occurs, and there is no strength to endure pain because the body has adapted to pain relievers and experiences pain for any reason, patients begin to look for moral support, those who will sympathize with them, those who will pity them, because it is so hard for them. Patients feel sorry for themselves, sympathizers feel sorry for the sick, this is an idyll of empathy, no one is to blame, everyone is sorry, and only those who are not sorry can finish this process.
Self-pity is the last stage, only death is further.