Youthanasia
Quite frankly, I say 'god bless them' if they are giving them too much morphine. I've seen it do it's magic, and if you have to die, why not die peacefully? Why torture a child?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_he_me/us_med_euthanasia_children
Parents say doctors hastened death for dying kids
By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner, Ap Medical Writer - 58 mins ago
CHICAGO - It's a situation too agonizing to contemplate - a child dying and in pain. Now a small but provocative study suggests that doctors may be giving fatal morphine doses to a few children dying of cancer, to end their suffering at their parents' request.
A handful of parents told researchers that they had asked doctors to hasten their children's deaths - and that doctors complied, using high doses of the powerful painkiller.
The lead author of the study and several other physicians said they doubt doctors are engaged in active mercy killing. Instead, they speculate the parents interviewed for the study mistakenly believed that doctors had followed their wishes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100302/ap_on_he_me/us_med_euthanasia_children
Parents say doctors hastened death for dying kids
By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner, Ap Medical Writer - 58 mins ago
CHICAGO - It's a situation too agonizing to contemplate - a child dying and in pain. Now a small but provocative study suggests that doctors may be giving fatal morphine doses to a few children dying of cancer, to end their suffering at their parents' request.
A handful of parents told researchers that they had asked doctors to hasten their children's deaths - and that doctors complied, using high doses of the powerful painkiller.
The lead author of the study and several other physicians said they doubt doctors are engaged in active mercy killing. Instead, they speculate the parents interviewed for the study mistakenly believed that doctors had followed their wishes.