Right, so I was thinking about medicines such as the brompton cocktail; administered by doctors to terminally ill patients who would undergo a lot of pain prior to their inevitable demise, in which case the medicine given was a last-ditch effort, more to numb the pain before the death of the patient as opposed to the slow death they would face. Brompton cocktail(which I am using as an example) contains heroin, cocaine, morphine, and ethyl alcohol, which do relieve pain, but are very bad for the patient. I presume this is a highly controversial subject and would like to know where the community of ArmorGames stands. On one hand, there is a slight chance of the patient making a recovery. Here are some comprehensive graphs on cancer by the U.S. government(some fatal medications, as they will henceforth be called, are applicable for cancer), for you to see statistics on the illness. According to this Q/A article 55/100 cancer patients(I'm using cancer as my main example here, folks) survive five years or more, but then die, so that's more than half, add to that the presumed few that die before the five years, and the basic idea is that cancer is mostly fatal. As I just said, just over half of cancer patients live for five years or more(the article was rather vague on that) then die. Five years of suffering from the side affects of cancer(which, depending upon the type of cancer, includes persistent coughing of blood, diarrhea, anemia, lumps, indigestion, among other things. This information can be checked here). So, now having this information, could it be more humane to simply kill them using fatal medications? We're assuming, of course, that the patient and his/her family has given the doctor their permission to do so(without this permission, it would be considered murder). And that very fine line between humane killing and murder is what many critics fall back on. It's like murder, and we all know that murder is wrong. And yet, you are likely saving them from a long and drawn out death by sickness. However, as I said, there is always the possibility that they do make a miraculous recovery, and that is also a topic of debate. What if they would have made a recovery? How can the doctor know for certain if someone is terminal, and thereby justify the use of these fatal medications? So...yeah. I'm not really taking a side on this, I just want to see peoples' opinions on it. Thank you for your time.
