Morphine can be such an euphamism supporter for "happy death". It was "instructive" for us to witness an old lady, our dear friend, in France damaged by alcohol abuse. Indigent, she was brought to a hospital and our devout M.D. friend went with us to visit her. She was on morphine drip and the staff explained it helped ease her pain.
That is for sure!
Our M.D. friend looked at the drip and showed us how they had the faucet open to a fatal drip. She was still conscious and we baptized her on her wish then and there. We went out to get a bite to eat and she was "in the fridge" when we got back. Just in time!
Nobody to yell at, no target for our outrage, that is how it was.
All of this talk about euthanasia actually makes me sick.
How dumb do people have to be to be willing to place their family in the hands of men to decide when to kill them?
How dumb to think it will never be a member of your family that someone will decide needs to be done away with - against your own wishes. All they need to do, is have a hospital policy that withdraws care at a certain point - then you can move the person or not to another facility.
The purpose of this is never for kindness for the victim or the family - it will be purely financial.
Of course, they will couch it in kindness/relieving suffering/allowing a peaceful exit - but, nevertheless, it is killing. And we are all suckers to fall for that rhetoric.
Why should we allow any to say others have to die - they do not have that authority and it is not their call.
By the way, Randall Terry is still running against Senator Jim King of Jacksonville. Details are at www.randallterry.com.
Anything in excess could kill you. My point was simply that too many pain-killers exist to claim that death is the only way to ease someone's possible suffering. I am aware that morphine overdose is a common way to off hospice and nursing home residents by those who are pro-euthanasia. That's not what I am suggesting. I am suggesting that nothing is so bad that we have to murder people.