I don't care what is said in this article.  My sister was alive and talking and fine on Monday night and was dead after the hospice nurse give her six syringes of morphine at a dose of one an hour.  Her breathing stopped on Weds. After the nurse told us to say our good-byes.  She had cancer but we knew that she had a few months left.  She told us how to bake a pineapple upside down cake and fix a pressure cooked roast on Monday night while ignoring the hospice nurse who slipped her an Oxycodone while telling her that he was giving her something for nausea.  Then they proceeded to give her the morphine at one dose an hour saying that she was in pain.  We saw no signs of anything especially pain.  Morphine did this and I am convinced of it.