I would like to digress a little. Of course by the Grace of God and my hospital treatment as a very young person in the UK, I am still here. Sadly I do know very well the stories going the rounds about a form of euthanasia practiced there. I do not have any facts though. My great aunt had Parkinson's disease. It may have been brought on by a house being bombed next door. She was 63 years old. She told her daughter she was on borrowed time, while in the hospital. She never made it out.
The legend and it may be an urban legend in England, was said to be "withdrawal of fluids". I say this because I do not trust bleeding heart liberals. This breed is universal and need to be watched. They care not for the persons who have served their time and are considered no longer any use.
Big lie my foot. Sarah is the gold.
I read an article once that claimed that King George V was slipped the black bottle during a long and perilous health battle because Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin wanted the "crisis" over .... so he interfered with the King's doctor. As soon as the doctor, the story goes, slipped His Majesty the dose, the King opened his eyes, looked at the doctor, and said "God damn you" -- his last words.
By polishing off the King, of course, Baldwin, said at the time and often afterward to have been "the smartest man in British politics", unwittingly accelerated the succession crisis over Edward VIII and his unsuitable American intended, Wallace Simpson. Had George V recovered, the growing difficulty might have been sidestepped quietly before King George eventually passed from the scene.
Baldwin was also conspicuous in Why England Slept for his inertness toward the rising threat of German Nazism. Like an American president 60 years later, he preferred to "kick the can" and let someone else deal with it, rather than spend any of his own precious political capital.