[DemolitionRed]

Hospices are very tuned in to when a person has reached the final stages of life. One of the more umpleasant processes of dying is air hunger where a person gasps, sometimes frantically for air. Oxygen won't help if a person is going through the biological process of dying because organs are naturally shutting down. This is when they are normally given morphine. Its not to kill them, its to relax them and reduce air hunger. IMO, morphine during the final days is a dignified and relaxed way to die.