what happened much of the time was a bad outcome for the patient who suffered useless and extreme pain at the end of their lives to suit their wives , husbands , sons , daughters , and themselves , then they would have the same result with far less pain if they were told to accept that nothing could be done for them and they should go home and prepare themselves for a painless end where they were not surgically torn to pieces in a painful show of something being done for them which was of no account whatsoever except the horrible pain and expense .