[PantaloonFlames]

you didn't accidentally euthanize your father. The nurse purposefully did, and she was covering her butt by involving you. You were an unaware observer (Sorry). She knew what was the humane thing to do, and she knew you were not up to it, and so she assumed responsibility.

Death of parent is difficult. Sorry that you had do go through such a difficult time.

[pc86]

There's another word for that - murder.

I am totally in favor of euthanasia under the right circumstances. A nurse tricking someone who is certainly is shock into nodding their heads and saying "ok" is not under any conditions the right circumstances.

[JadeNB]

> A nurse tricking someone who is certainly is shock into nodding their heads and saying "ok" is not under any conditions the right circumstances.

I saw you got a downvote, which is a shame, since I think that you made a good point: the importance of assisted suicide as a right should not allow its use to cover any instance of intentional death. However, I think that point might have been based on a misreading of LCDninja's post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11706159). As near as I can tell, there was no trickery going on, just an honest, if tragic, instance of two people trying honestly to interpret a conversation, but coming to different interpretations about its meaning because the one who understood that there was subtext present could not legally make it explicit.