It's ethically childish that we use roundabout measures like that instead of just putting someone out of their misery overtly. It creates a drawn out process w

It's ethically childish that we use roundabout measures like that instead of just putting someone out of their misery overtly. It creates a drawn out process where the family has to wait around until they pass at some unknown point instead of coming together in one moment, making peace, saying their farewell, and witnessing the finality together. It took my girlfriend's vegetative mother a week to die as she struggled to breathe that whole time, put on just enough morphine to supposedly feel no pain and not a drop more. By the time she finally croaked, most of the family that had shown up to see her out had left because nobody has time to wait around days or weeks for death to happen. And it was emotional hell for her two daughters. They could've just given her a nice dose of morphine, but our ethics are too infantile. Instead we do make-believe.