[KoRn]

It’s fairly simple. You give someone IV morphine around the clock, it depresses their breathing. Keep it going, and it will gradually kill anyone. Adding Benzos into the mix hastens the whole process. When my wife first became a nurse, she was a little disturbed by the whole thing. The doctors have a terminal patient that isn’t going to survive long. They pump in the drugs, and it will bring on ‘the end’.

[Lil Flower]

You are absolutely correct. Have you ever watched someone dying breathing 60 times a minute. Try and do it sometime just to see how uncomfortable it is. For one thing it isn't productive in helping you breathe, and it is also incredibly uncomfortable. Morphine is also prescribed for that very thing. Not pain but respiratory distress. Also there is a medication called narcan that is given in case of too much respiratory depression. I have used morphine to relieve respiratory distress many times and it is fairly easy to regulate without giving a pt too much.