using painkillers

I discoverer painkillers. I had taken pills that reduce inflammations or temperature,. But to kill minor pains. Not really. Thought beneath me. But then what a relief! And I remembered Seneca, who was teaching stoicism while was living a wealthy man's  life. What was the point of him teaching stoicism? Just to pretend to belong to a philosophy en vogue during his life? Teaching without practicing? Like  today's politicians? At that time I thought philosophers were living by their words. Right?    When he was told to commit suicide he was totally unprepared - had to try different methods....A stoic unprepared for death.