I think you are taking those statements too literally. When a cancer patient is dying, it is very painful. The doctors provide pain medication to control the pain. Sometimes , those doses can cause respiratory depression and death. The only other alternative is to let patients suffer. No one wants to do that, but the treatment for pain can cause death. No one is deliberately euthanizing hospice patients.
“No one is deliberately euthanizing hospice patients.”
I’ve been doing hospice work for over twenty years and have been around a lot of different groups and patients. Sorry to say, they are deliberately euthanizing hospice patients.
It is the norm to increase the morphine or Oxy to a level where they feel no pain, and lose much consciousness and quality of life in the process. It is a balancing act to find that fine line between no pain and clarity of mind. I try to err on the low side, most err on the high dose side.
Yes, I have worked with many types of pain, including bone cancer. Been with quite a few while they passed on over the years. There is much more to it than most realize.