[wideawake]

It is one thing to give a terminal patient an appropriate level of painkillers and liquid nourishment until the inevitable occurs.

It is another thing entirely to dehydrate or starve a non-terminal patient to death or to hasten the death of a terminal patient by giving them poison or an intentional overdose.

The former is death with dignity.

The latter is murder.

[bedolido]

true! I misunderstood the difference. I would hope the former would be the case for all people dying in extreme pain (if the patient asks, if not possible, the family asks)