As the saying goes, Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Buddhist philosophy
Well, being one who has experienced bouts of severe, debilitating pain due to an irreparable injury, this is one issue that I am still exploring. I would like to believe the above to be true, but in the throes of a bad spell, when all my relaxation and visualizing tricks are just not working, I automatically wish there was an end to the pain, however that may occur (death seems like such a lovely option during those eternal hours).
But then when the pain ends, there is an incredible relief. The end of the pain brings about a kind of joy in the fact that the suffering is over and I survived it.
I am of course, talking in the merely physical sense. On any other level, the pain is not such an issue. I dealt, I accept it. Such is life.