First, if someone is going to kill themselves, its pretty much a moot point, they eaither will or will not.

I think if the person wants to die if they are incapacitated beyound a certian point, then let them, its there choice to go.

If they cannot do it for themselves for whatever reason, then there should be some kind of legal protection for those who would carry out their wishes when the time came.

Similar to how a DNR (do not rescesitate) order is executed.

It sure would save the the loved ones the metal anguish of having to do it illegally on their own, not to metion allieviate the undue burden placed on medical staff in such situations.

As for the hospice nurse...sounds to me like she is allowing her own beliefs on suicide to cloud her objectivity when it comes to how pain relief medications work, there are in fact patients who no ammount of pain medication seems to help and no one knows what those in some kinds pf commas are really experiencing.

In any event it sounds a lot better to me than removing life support and or nutrition and allowing a paitent to litterally slowly sufficate, dehydrate and or starve to death.

A practice thats allready allowed by law under certian conditions.