Hello, I was wondering if this statement was true. My mother is dying of stage 4 stomach cancer, and frequently suffers from uncontrollable pain. Upon taking her to the Emergency Room I was told by a ER doctor that since she has advancing cancer, there is not a whole lot they can do and she has one of two choices. One, they can admit her as a patient under observation and give her pain meds just to get the pain manageable so she could be released, or she could be admitted as a patient and as a result she would receive higher doses medication that would rapidly diminish her quality of life, and thus, slowly helping her pass. My question is, what medications was this doctor speaking of that would robb her of her life, and could these medications really do this?