I have seen this "mindset" when I lived in New York, on certain days of the week (I won't mention which), when it is forbidden for some religious groups to use anything "mechanical." So, if they want the light switched on or off, they let an ashtray press the switch or tell a child to turn the lights off -- that way gravity "did it," or the innocent child did it and thereby the law wasn't violated.
It seems to me, we have come a long way, perhaps too long, in our quest for human rights, giving in to rationalism instead of mercy, forgetting that only do we not have a right to our own life (because we can't keep it), but we certainly have no right to end anyone else's life deliberately no matter what the process of what "does it".
Deliberate act with the purpose of ending someone's life is -- murder no matter how legal(istic) minds sugarcoat it.
I have included our Catholic brethren with the same petition to pray with us.
I agree with everything you have written, which is probably no surprise to this pinged group. That said, your comment put me in mind of something my mother asked me to do when she lay dying, quite young by today's standards, of cancer. About ten days before she died she asked me to get the priest for anointing and communion. Then after he left, she took my hand and said, "Tell the priest to "say the prayers"!" I asked her what prayers. She said he'd know. I did and the priest just looked grave and said to tell my mother he would. After she died he told me they were prayers for a peaceful and easy imminent death. That's just what she had.