Reply #69: It's still a form of euthanasia. It's witholding available medical treatment

[smoogatz]

with the knowledge that doing so will result in the death of the patient. No different in practice than giving them that big bolus of morphine. None of which is a problem for me. What's troubling to me is that the state of Texas has decided that some bottom-line driven "ethics panel" has the right to take life-and-death decisions out of the hands of families, and to ration health-care (and end of life care) as the for-profit hospitals see fit. It's yet more proof (as if we needed any) that our current health-care system doesn't work.