Human life is rare and precious hence prolonging it maybe a good option or a person who is not liberated yet. This gives more room for pratice on case your next birth is not conducive for pratice.
The motivation in refusing medication can happen due to few factors:
- an ideal or view (e.g. I have done by part for the world, everyone has a right to decide whether to live or die, When I die the suffering will be over, etc.)
- aversion towards to sickness
If any of the above cases are the motivation then this is not Buddhist take on the matter. As you are holding on to some ideal in the 1st and in the latter you are averse towards the conditions you are unlikely to get a good birth in the next life.
In principle if you do it the Buddhist way then you have to try to understand the 4 Noble Truths in experiences due to the sickness or otherwise and Dependent Origination of the condition during your sickness or otherwise. One of the main links for both is sensations / feeling / unsatisfactoriness which you should look at them closely being equanimous and seeing the arising from start to the end. Due to the greater pain of the sickness you might miss more subtle sensation. You have to be attentive to the also.
Also please take time to read:
- A Buddhist Perspective on Pain, Stress and Illness by Bhikkhu Sumedha
- Bright and Shining Mind in a Disabled Body by Kampol Thongbunnum
- Meditation on Perception: Ten Healing Practices to Cultivate Mindfulness by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
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