Having decided that it’s ‘OK’ to deny one treatment (chemo) to someone based on age, why on earth do you think they would be obligated to provide another treatment (morphine)?
Having broken a trust (that they will treat you), why wouldn’t they break a trust (that they will treat you)?
Death panels are OK as long as they provide adequate morphine?
Don’t you think there are lots of sickos who populate the coming death panels that will giggle at the idea of denying some good conservative ANY treatment. Based on age. Or prior condition. Or whatever.
If you don’t think the kind of person who get their jollies hurting someone will be the same kind of person who will populate the ‘decision panels’ you haven’t paid attention to human nature or that of people who populate bureaucracies. And they will probably get giant (censored) just thinking about the pain your loved one is in.
I DID baulk at all the shots I needed to live and work in the middle east, but I hate, loathe, detest, deplore and otherwise DON'T like needles. We even needed a polio re-vaccination to work in the middle east.
It was worth it though.
In all my decades and decades of life I have never met any doctor, nurse, orderly or any other medical personnel who "get their jollies hurting someone" and would would (will) be the same kind of person who will populate the ‘decision panels.'
HOWEVER, you seem to have met those people. I HOPE you didn't have to trust your health to them. Sickening. May they all ROT in hell.