I have gone through exactly this with my dad, where he was in an unbelivable amounts of pain and eventually was being given so much morphine he wasn't conscious at all in his final 4 days. So we just kept vigil next to his bed at the hospital 24/7, and there was absolutely nothing dignified about it, we were literally sitting next to my dad who was slowly starving do death. It was so disturbing I still have issues because of it. My dad might have chosen euthanasia, or he might not have done - but not giving him that choice in the first place(euthanasia is illegal here) and instead going towards sedating someone to a point where there is no dignity to speak about is horrendous to me.