I found this article on Facebook; it's about people who want to end their lives when they're ill.

[NutmegYankee]

24. Many doctors won't do that even if it wasn't at risk.

My father was denied his pain meds because the morphine might have slowed his breathing. (He died 15 hours later) Doctors are trained to prolong life, no matter what.

I'm sure we can strike a balance with laws that provide the necessary protections, but poll after poll shows that people would rather OD on a drug than die with a brutal cancer. I can go into grotesque detail what the end stages of Mrs. Maynard's cancer would have been like. I fully supported her decision and wish my dad had the option. He flat out expressed that to me that he wished there was a way to end it. It was one of the last things he ever said, before the disease took his speech.