There have always been doctors who will over-prescribe pain and other meds to “help” a person leave this world a bit earlier.
By legalizing it, it is inevitable that what has happened in EU will happen here. It is interesting to see WHO and what organizations promote various agendas. Leftists invariably promote doc assisted suicide. They love death (of the innocent or suffering) - they want to reduce populations, there are too many (other) people according to them. But at the same time they are adamantly opposed to the use of the death penalty. They are mentally, morally and spiritually sick.
The innocent and suffering should be helped and protected; those who choose to do evil should be removed from the earth. WHen I say the death penalty is way underused, I mean it. Many crimes that are now not capital crimes used to be and the death penalty should be used again - for rape, kidnapping, child molesting, and all murder. And no 20 years of appeals, either. Anyway, that’s OT.
The suffering your relative had to go through and you and your family had to witness may well have been able to be somewhat alleviated with medication. Interestingly enough, many or most of those who are really behind the assisted suicide movement have other agendas. Wesley Smith (IIRC) wrote a highly interesting book on the subject.
Contrary to popular belief, pain medications will not relieve the extreme pain caused by terminal cancer tumors pressing on nerves. In my father-in-laws case his stomach tumor had grown to the size of a grapefruit and could not even keep water down, much less oral medication. In a 82 year frail body reduced to 80 lbs by the cancers, there is not enough flesh to inject pain medications on a continuous basis.
Having said that, I am very much pro-life, especially for the unborn. To kill a developed fetus who can easily survive on its own is murder one in my book.
At the same time the humanist in me can not tolerate people being forced to endure excruciating pain for the last few days of life. I am against all pain whether by criminal violence or by nature. However we can not give doctors a free license to euthanize indiscriminately. With carefully written rules, I must go along with euthanasia having witnessed such need first hand.