Euthanasia is much more common than usually admitted.
If someone is dying of cancer in age care, they're in great pain, in out of consciousness etc, it is quite common for an overdose of morphine to be delivered by a nurse once family have had a chance to visit.
The nurse will state something like "we delivered pain relief but their body couldn't take any more".
Not all situations are the same, but a lot of ways of dying are very painful. Many grieving families are often not in a position to make a decision or even really understand how to have a conversation about it.
I wish that as a society we could be broadly more open and realistic about this.
If someone is dying of cancer in age care, they're in great pain, in out of consciousness etc, it is quite common for an overdose of morphine to be delivered by a nurse once family have had a chance to visit.
The nurse will state something like "we delivered pain relief but their body couldn't take any more".
Not all situations are the same, but a lot of ways of dying are very painful. Many grieving families are often not in a position to make a decision or even really understand how to have a conversation about it.
I wish that as a society we could be broadly more open and realistic about this.