Euthanasia: When Life Is To Be Feared More Than Death �the elderly patients�are comatose. They weigh practically nothing. Their skin hangs in heavy folds on their skeletons. �These patients must be fed through gastric tubes pushed down their throats,� Dr. Peter Haemmerli explains, and that can make even comatose patients retch and vomit.� Thus, according to Barbara J. Culliton, many severely ill patients must endure much pain. Is it right to keep them living in this pain? Wouldn�t it be more humane to give them a painless release from their agony? For this irreversibly comatose patient, euthanasia wo