Everyone is probably familiar with the topic of if we should be able to make the decision to chose when we die. I don't mean suicide but rather the human cessation of life in the face of continued debilitating pain or lose of quality of life. This idea at the moment is illegal.
However did you know that children who are the legal medical decision maker over there parents in nursing homes have the right to cease food intake completely? in effect these people have the right to starve there parents to death! Yet they can't decide to have a large amount of say morphine administrated so that a deep sleep turns into a gentle passing!!
My wife is a Nurse at a Geriatric Care Facility and we have came across this a few time over the years. To me this is abhorrent and is in essence a legal means of death { if a barbaric one } so why is the morphine choice taken from us?! I mean really dead is dead why not make it as gentle as possible?!!
However did you know that children who are the legal medical decision maker over there parents in nursing homes have the right to cease food intake completely? in effect these people have the right to starve there parents to death! Yet they can't decide to have a large amount of say morphine administrated so that a deep sleep turns into a gentle passing!!
My wife is a Nurse at a Geriatric Care Facility and we have came across this a few time over the years. To me this is abhorrent and is in essence a legal means of death { if a barbaric one } so why is the morphine choice taken from us?! I mean really dead is dead why not make it as gentle as possible?!!