Youthanasia

[cemeteryconsort]

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?

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[luzclarita]

Since this is a topic close to home at the moment, I have pretty strong opinions.

This distinction about what exactly kills a dying person and trying to make a specific other person culpable (in the case of my family, trying to either make the doctors or my grandmother an object of judgment) is wrong. What does murdering a person mean? To me, it means prematurely, violently, and intentionally bringing about someone else's death. People can be killed through negligence or incompetence as well, but they are not murdered in my opinion.

Since no murder is happening, and since death is immanent, then what is going on is patients and families exercising their right to different treatment options. No doctor can claim to be heroically rescuing a child from death in this situation by with-holding the morphine.