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One could argue that you are doing harm, mental anguish type harm, to someone by forcing them to die a slow, painful and struggling death when a little bit of morphine could hasten the process and keep them peaceful simultaneously. The line between "keeping them comfortable" and killing them is very very fine. I think my mom was euthanized last year so that she didn't have to stay awake/alert while she was gasping for air in that last day. I think, without the morphine, she would have stayed alive another day but in a horribly anxious, desperate, gasping for air state instead of being sound asleep and not struggling. Hospice does this all the time, they simply do it quietly.
I truly hope I just fall over dead without any of the long drawn out suffering. It's torturous to the patient and the family to go through that. I felt like I was severely traumatized by watching my mom die a tiny bit more every day for a month. I hope that once my quality of life is gone, I go very quickly.
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