I know personally of nurses injecting dying patients with morphine to make them more “comfortable.” I think it is done routinely in both hospitals and nursing homes, but on the downlow.
Agreed. Some places call it Palliative Care. I have seen it in action personally in a State that does not allow assisted suicide or euthanasia.
Family often insists on nurses giving multiple injections and as long as its ordered by the doc,its done..I remember one family group..actually his poa and close friends. He had no family.
But they sat around his bed waiting for him to die and called us every hour to medicate him because he twitched one time..it was a party for them.
That is a narcotic that a doc has already written a script got
Yes, this has been happening routinely for a long time, even when the patient hasn’t agreed to it. It should be illegal; instead, here they are, codifying it in law.
It all depends on the dose. Without morphine dying people can suffer, e.g. with overwhelming breathing difficulties. That's usually the point where organs start to shut down and toxins start to build up in the extremities causing tremendous pain. Those people are indeed dying and deserve some comfort.
But assisted suicide is not about dying people. It's about relatively healthy people killing themselves to create a more "dignified" death. What they fail to realize is that death is never dignified. Might pretend it is for a TV show. But it's not, it's just premature death.