I am told that pancreatic cancer causes horrible pain. (I think people can be “eased” out of the situation with adequate doses or morphine—which will shorten the whole situation.)
But rabies is pretty hideous.
So is meningitis.
Smallpox.
Plague.
Tertiary syphilis.
Cholera is no picnic.
Emphysema.
(ETA: Ebola.)
I am reading a book called Epidemics and Society which is very vivid in its descriptions of how people have died over the centuries. If you use the Look Inside function on Amazon and scroll to the Symptomology of Plague, you can read what plague was like.
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