Your hyperbole is not applicable to the discussion. Hospitals are free to determine who they will treat and who they will ask to seek care at another facility. An ethics committee at Houston Hermann Hospital made a decision that Ms. Clark was terminal, and that another facility would have to be sought for long-term care for her.
The decision was delayed, and during that delay, Ms. Clark died. It appears that, in fact, she was terminal.
Hospitals always give families the option to find a facility that will provide the care they need for their loved one.
No hyperbole there. Removing medical treatment from someone that needs it to live with the understanding that removing such care will kill them- that's killing them. It's really that simple.
About these hospitals: You're forgetting that Dr. Burke Balch had to negotiate for years to get that meager 10 day reprieve. Hospitals desired the ability to just remove treatment and kill people on the spot. They have no desire to allow time to let a patient move to another facility or they wouldn't enforce the pathetic, unreasonable 10 day rule. We have to obtain court orders to get more time in every case.
I don't agree that it's okay to kill terminally ill people. If they are terminal, let them die naturally. Why the big damn hurry?