[Canticle_of_Deborah]

A patient who has been clear she wants to feel as little pain as possible at the end of a terminal condition ought to be entitled to that. The nonsense about not giving addictive drugs (or illegal narcotics, for that matter) to the dying is just so immoral.

I don't disagree. But there's a difference between keeping someone pain-free and killing them.

You want to take your own life, go for it. People have been doing it since biblical times. Leave healthcare workers out of it and don't turn healing institutions into death factories.

[ChemistCat]

Easy, friend...I am not advocating killing, though I myself am taking meds that might kill me. There's a risk in everything we do, and the lethal dose of painkiller is very close to the dose sufficient to make some cancers stop hurting. :-( Not a call I'd want to have to make, but it's still one that needs to be made by those who know what they're doing.