The first half was a recount of the story by interviews. There is most certainly a tinge of bias but I still found myself backing Dr.Pou's decision. Other details discussed made me concerned about how it was ultimately done. My end opinion was rather that there was a clear lack of coordinated authority and the people with the purse strings to help the hospital left everyone else to burn for the sake of money. So much of it was a mess that I think everyone was trying to be an advocate it their own way and with no central guidance and a lack of strong support heavy decisions were made. I ultimately feel that abandonment gave an extremely slim chance of survival to those patients but an extremely high chance of utter torture before dying. In a risk to benefit ratio to me it makes no sense to do that. Of course the taboo of euthanasia makes many knee jerkedly decide that it's murder... Such is life in the peanut gallery though...
Yeah. The back half of the book gave me an ulcer and frustrated me as a reader. I can't imagine being involved in that case.
