Sadly, despite claims by charlatans, nobody who has died has come up with an answer. Having lived to see 88 years approaching fast and like many others of my age, faced a painful death in the years 1939 to 1945 on a daily basis. Let me say personally I suffered much pain, including 18 months of hospitalisation. In 1944 there were no antibiotics, only one surgeon capable of rebuilding a broken body, Archie McIndoe, he could not treat every injury. The rest of us were put to bed, survived on what food was available, rationing hit every life, we either got better or death released us from more suffering. So to answer the question. NO, dying is, after that, decades later, those who did suffer have had time to forget. I have been dying ever since the end of WW2, it has not been painful, I did not expect it to be. Soon that Great Umpire in the Sky will lift his finger and give me "out". I hope for a quiet peaceful walk to the pavillion. carrying my bat with pride, a good innings, not a great score to show, but the game was fun to play. Pain is only in the mind when it happens, time heals and it is soon forgotten. Face your inevitable end, you might suffer pain on the way but death is final, the pain will have gone.