[DannyTN]

I agree with you that it's an unusual case. But healthcare workers should know that life is sacred, and they don't have the right to take a life. At the very least, they should know that they don't have a legal right to take a life.

When I owned a home health and hospice in TN, this was part of orientation as well as the written policies that every nurse had to become familiar with.

Even if it means the patient drowns or dies of heatstoke, or starves, you don't take his life. You do your best to help him, and if that is insufficient, then you've done your best.

It's part of the hippocratic oath that every doctor takes or at least used to take. The classical version read, "I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect."

The modern version reads "But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God."

[WLR]

If part of the Hippocratic Oath is to do no harm then a patient who has no reasonable chance and survival is really not being harmed if their death is hastened under such a circumstance and it could be argued the greater harm would be to leave them to suffer. I for one vigorously oppose Euthanasia as a policy and law. I do so because it will lead to abuse and pressure from insurance companies and others who support the cult of death to fast track the process.

W