Canadian medicine was unable to provide her with pain relief.
He put her in his car and used CO to kill her.
She was never going to get better. It was cerebral palsy of the most severe kind.
It would have been hard for me as a parent to see that pain every day like that.
The statement made about opiates may have been clumsy, but it points up that risking death from them is a worry that should take second place to mercy. Unless the patient themselves so choose otherwise, it is better to risk death, with God ultimately directing whether and when it will happen, than to leave in misery for virtue’s sake.
Even in bible days, such a person would be supplied with copious laudanum, which is a crude opiate.
We should watch our own “anti opiate wars” to be sure such cases don’t get swept up in them. A doctor’s clientele needs to be figured into whether the government needs to be breathing down that doctor’s neck.
This type of argument is called "Putting her out of your misery."
The girl had a right to effective palliative care, which includes pain management: opioids will do the trick at the right dosage. Whether she was ever going to get "better" is unknowable, and in any case irrelevant.
I'm never going to get better, either.
None of us is healthier dead.