Reply #16: I read the whole article [View All]

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Morphine was given to patients who were dying and in agony. The article also made the point that many patients had do not resuscitate orders and there was not much that could be done for them once the power failed. The article also pointed out that when morphine was given to a dying patient a nurse stayed with the patient until the patient died. It is actually common to give morphine in high doses to people who are in extreme agony and who are in the process of dying. My own father was given morphine in the last hours of his life to help alleviate some of the pain he was experiencing from the cancer that had spread throughout his entire body. What were they suppose to do? Let them suffer and be in pain for the days or hours they had left??