[Brutha]

Feeling pain is a normal human reaction. If you can't feel pain than obviously that will inhibit your ability to tell you are getting harmed.

If you have the goal of feeling unharmed and being unharmed (a comman goal), feeling pain is failure.

I'm not really sure you can compare failure to a funeral. Everyone is going to die one day...so I'm not sure you can consider failure dieing.

So say your dad has cancer. He doesn't want to die and beat cancer. If he doesn't beat it he failed.

Hope this helped.

It didn't address the main question but was about the area before the actual question.