YES! It ALWAYS has been and it ALWAYS will be.
What is the difference between that and having hospice, or her daughter up the dosage of morphine? JMHO...
I realize that you are fairly new here, are you aware that Free Republic is a PRO-LIFE forum?
You need to explain yourself, because you really don't belong here.
I thought my comment was easily understandable. It is commonly assumed that to kill a person is a sin and a crime.
The question I thought that I had put forward was this. How is it legal or moral to “up the dose” to ease “mother” to her reward. Yet illegal to poison her brownies, or simply shoot her in the back of the head?
The result is the same. A person has decided to play God, and ended the inconvenience of watching a loved one suffer during the death process. One is messy and verboten. The other, quite acceptable.
I don’t know about your experience, but I have had several with family or friends who have died. In nearly every case, a decision is made by a “nurse” or doctor to “up the dose”. In every case I have watched this happen, death was really not imminent. What was imminent, is that medical staff and family now are shortening the lives of people they “love” in the name of compassion.
I watched my neighbor do just that to her father 3-4 months ago. Three days before his passing, he was fighting to get outside, he wanted to have a smoke and a ride in his wheelchair. He literally was clawing his way out of the door, while his “loved one” (a legal nurse) fought to keep him in. He was “dying” for months, and literally 3 days later did so. She explained that he was “getting too much to handle”, and had to “up the dose”.
What I have described is not only now accepted, it is legal in the sense that no legal authority will investigate unless it is the death of someone named “Gotrocks”, or Bill Gates.