Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
While I've no reason to doubt you, I also have no reason to doubt the nurse - a health-care professional, after all.

I can only reconcile the two positions by assuming that your wife and your mother fell into the "tiny handful" of patients that pain-killers could not help, a remarkable coincidence. This makes me wonder if those in favour of assisted deaths are focusing exclusively on that handful, while those who are against are looking at all people in the late stages of a terminal illness, whether in pain or not.


On another tack, I also wonder, is there ever a justifiable financial motive?
Your tiny handful isnt so tiny MMI, trust me I worked medsurge including floating to oncology and was a travel nurse for several years. There are points where pain medication no longer works, just like leo said, and if you give them anymore you will kill them or in the case of the non-overdosing drugs just maintain the same level of relief if any.

Medically induced commas are the only viable alternative, but we dont know for certian that they provide any relief so much as reduced phisological response to outward stimuli though the consensus is that they are not all trapped inside themselves and screaming, we still dont know for certian.

What kills me, is you go back to before our healthcare systems got mired in legal red tape by the greed induced insurance companies and other corperations and you dont hear mention of this being such an issue. The Medical staff just took care of buisness using common sence between themseves and the next of kin, everything was handled.