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Wife has been a critical care nurse for 30 years. Its a very fine line, but I've come to really grasp the distinction after loosing my first to a terminal disease at 44.
If it takes enough pain meds to make you comfortable and that amount suppresses your heart and lungs to the point you die from the medication, that is very different than the choice of injecting enough medication to kill you.
Its a fine distinction, but its really about true intent. Not just 'nudge nudge, wink wink' its time for grandma to hit the happy trails.
Intent is important, just because I have seen too many animals that were for convenience rather than true suffering of the patient. That kills me.
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1967 912 with centerlocks… 10 years and still in pieces!
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