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Honestly, I don't think the overriding factor is economics. I think the overriding factor is that medical professionals know what a dying person looks like, have some understanding of what continuous, inescapable pain might feel like, and want to do the most humane thing possible.

Having been in a room with a terminal cancer patient fighting through her body shutting down, it wasn't a question of "How fast can we clear this bed." It was more the sense of "This is what every second of the rest of her life is going to be. Should that life be hours or minutes long?"