Morphine for terminal cancer patients on their way out is one thing. It's purpose is to kill pain, and sometimes it hastens death as a byproduct. My grandpa had morphine for the colon cancer that killed him, as do most other terminal patients. My father in law died two weeks ago of oat-cell lung cancer (which has the worst prognosis of any lung disease, incl. other forms of lung cancer except mesothelioma, which is really a pleural disease, not lung); he had morphine, and finally just stopped breathing. Whether that came from the morphine or from the cancer growing into the mediastinal cavity and stopping the heart is debateable. Either way, he was in the final stages of a disease for which he had had no chemotherapy and which kills 94% of its victims.
I do not believe that counts as murder in the same way as dehydrating a disabled but otherwise healthy human being in her early 40's like Terri.
You're right. Morpheine for the terminal is very different than what they want to do for a non-terminal person like Terri.
And thanks for clarifying that it isn't always determinable if it's the morpheine that causes it, or the heart, or the cancer.
It's very hard to make those decisions, but they are terminal cases. I'm sorry for your losses.