Morphine. Morphine eases suffering. Death could send someone to eternal suffering. Mercy killing is a very temporal viewpoint I think.
Who decides what care is futile? People in comas recover, sometimes years and years later.
Furthermore, I don't think that the hospital and these slimy 'bioethicists' care more about easing suffering and love the patients more than family and friends. It's merely economic to them- strike that- it's both economic and sometimes a personal agenda to extend euthanasia. MOst bioethicists are pro-euthanasia.
Morphine can be such an euphamism supporter for "happy death". It was "instructive" for us to witness an old lady, our dear friend, in France damaged by alcohol abuse. Indigent, she was brought to a hospital and our devout M.D. friend went with us to visit her. She was on morphine drip and the staff explained it helped ease her pain.
That is for sure!
Our M.D. friend looked at the drip and showed us how they had the faucet open to a fatal drip. She was still conscious and we baptized her on her wish then and there. We went out to get a bite to eat and she was "in the fridge" when we got back. Just in time!
Nobody to yell at, no target for our outrage, that is how it was.
Good points - you made me see this more clearly.
Many family members do not even care about those being offed, why would we ever think hospital administrators cared or those making the end-of-life laws?
And, I think it is going to take an uproar to bring light on this - as it is very couched in "care", "ease suffering", "not prolonging the inevitable".