[the Real fifi]

Me, too. Send it to Hugh Hewitt.com who is collecting the media hysterical stories which turned out to be lies. I am sure this will turn out to be one of them. Or check with snopes.com which may already have debunked this.

[Mamzelle]

Doctors in this situation may know that to treat pain with some patients may hasten death--a fact with morphine and the terminally ill who suffer great pain. But almost all docs will still treat the pain, at least until some law or outcry stops them, usually with personal misgivings and discomfort. I suppose you could take these expressions of dismay as some sort of evidence for mercy killing...? But anyone with sense would not.