[T'wit]

They always recommend palliative care. It won't save any patients and you can charge the rubes full room rates for the price of aspirin. A little morphine also keeps the patients helpless to make their own health care decisions and hurries their trip to the Big SugarCandyMountain.

[8mmMauser]

It is morphine and other cocktails that ensure, like our own friend Uncle Johnny, the patient is just too comotose to shout out his opposing views. "He must be in a coma, just look at him!" Also, morphine is part of the Exit Protocol not just to ease pain and render senseless, but also to enhance the shutdown process.