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When someone goes into the dying process and starts to become agitated because the organs are shutting down, (remember, dying can sometimes be a very painful process) they do give morphine along with other meds for pain relief and deep sleep sedation and when dying is inevitable, they continue dosing up to the point of respiratory distress. They don't just do this for elderly people but for people who are in the process of dying and where there is no chance of recovery. They aren't doing the killing though, they are giving a dying person a more honorable way to die and perhaps a slightly quicker way out.

We wouldn't allow our pets to suffer a long and distressful dying process and we shouldn't, unless a person has enough capacity to say otherwise, allow our fellow man to suffer a long and painful death.