Is it End of Life Care? Or is it Euthanasia?

I was watching one of the weekly videos that David Icke posts and the subject of end-of-life care was discussed. I believe he was referring to the Liverpool Care Pathway designed to improve the experience in the last days of life. This whole topic struck a chord with me because of the large of amount of Intensive Care Unit experience that I have. For the record, I found myself asking myself many times, if end of life care was simply just Euthanasia, while working on the ICU.

I do not actively work in the medical field now, but I have worked in the field, in many aspects, for over 25 years; this has brought a large amount of experience with end of life and death of the patient population. I worked in a specialized burn unit, where the patient population was generally experienced a lot of pain, trauma, suffering and death. It was not unusual to watch patients on the unit die, and it got to the point where most of the staff had become numb to the death event. The high level of trauma and pain came with large doses of pain medication and sedation administration. Nurses that floated to our floor to help with coverage, were almost always extremely surprised at how much pain medication and sedation that was ordered and administered to our patients. Some of these nurses refused to give that much medication because it was exponentially more than they have ever administered.