it still is a business...but one that for my money is fairly well run and full of loving people...it would have to be....would YOU willingly for small compensation work with people that are dying of all kinds of terrible diseases such as liver or pancreatic cancer, AIDS, or debilitating muscular diseases....????....day in and day out ...????
More to the point but equally important: all adult humans are actually dying some gradually as part of the process and others dying more quickly as a result of active illness. What I object to is the notion that death should be hastened along and should be seen as a positive alternative to trying to live. My belief system supports the idea (funny to some) that God decides the when and where of death. I do not see anything inherently wrong with life support machines and other means to prolong life. As for the age old fear of pain, pain management is quite advanced and is or should part of any treatment plan today. Anyone who tells a patient otherwise is lying.