Did these medical personnel play God?

I'm not really sure how it could be simplier. They murdered people under the pretense of alleviating pain.

When I entrust myself to a doctor, I expect them to try their best to care for me, regardless of situation; that only ceases when I express desire to die, which doen't seem to be the case here, or when I excuse myself from the doctor's care.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

So doctors can now decide whether you deserve to live if a hurricane hits? If I entrust myself to a doctor and provide no desire to die, I fucking expect them to take care of me, regardless of situation.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Vampiro

Never said that.

It's the logical extension of your justification, regardless of whether you support it.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I still can't justify killing somebody because their situation is perceived as hopeless. That takes away the decision of what to do with their life away from the person, and to a person they never entrusted to kill them in times of danger.

It would help if the article clarified whether the patients were comatose or were aware, though. If witholding medicial supplies would've assuredly caused a comatose patient to die, I would've been more receptive to the idea.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

What? I'm asking whether the patients killed were comatose or aware, and stating some "right of all sentient beings" bullshit. I didn't say that the doctors killed anybody who didn't need medicial supplies.

I'm clearly acting like an excessive retard to get your attention like this.

Originally Posted by Vampiro

How is withholding treatment any different than giving them a lethal cocktail? According to you, the patients are under the doctors' care, meaning they should do what they can to save them or prolong their death, right? They, most likely, had the means to do at least one or the either, but they didn't. So in this case, letting them die and out-right killing them isn't any different. So that should be fairly irrelevant.

I'm obviously ignoring my position on the role of the doctor; I've never been consistent in my opinions, especially when someone I respect implies that I'm a idiot. I've always been a pushover like that.

In a situation like this, drastic measures have to be taken, including witholding medicial supplies. The reason I'm asking is if whether the patients are aware or comatose is that the aware patients have the ability to express desire to die when confronted with the fact that they won't be getting medicial supplies. Or they wish to continue, anyway. Comatose patients can't give input on anything, so the default action is to kill them to reduce pain.

In retrospect, the fact that they most likely only killed the comatose patients seems obvious now. Oh, well.

I was speaking idiomatically.