[Magdalen] Euthanasia when the patient does not request it.

[Jay Weigel]

My sister-in-law accused my stepmom-in-law of trying to kill my
father-in-law by ODing him on his morphine pills. He had lung cancer and
she was giving it to him around the clock whether he asked for it or not,
and he was zonked all the time. Sis-in-law managed to be there when the
hospice nurse visited and raised holy hell. I sort of felt sorry for the
nurse caught between those two, but the upshot was she told SMIL to back it
off a little and see what happened. FIL woke up and was able to enjoy his
last days with kids and grandkids, and SMIL pleaded "misunderstanding".

A measure of how much she was not loved by her step-grands (she treated
them all like the proverbial "redheaded stepchildren' and everything was
about *her* grandchildren) is that when my father-in-law died, my nephew
Jim, who was then 14, asked his mother, "Does this mean we don't have to be
related to Grandma Lu any more?"

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:34 AM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:

> My poor baby brother accused my mother's nurses of killing her.
>
> What is more potent than the combination of ignorance and despair?
> -M
>
> On Friday, July 3, 2015, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palliative_sedation
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