[summer]

Minimal standards of care for a dependent must be met in any situation

I don't really follow your line of thinking in your post, but I would say some families provide the MAXIMUM standard of care when one family member is terminally ill, and just wants to die at home, peacefully, and makes that clear in writing. I don't think that is murder. I think that is love. You can not force such a person to go travel for experimental treatments and endure more pain. The theory behind hospice care understands and endorses that. I do, too.

[bvw]

For death who doesn't want the most peaceful way, at home, among loved ones? A few who don't want the loved ones to bear the experience quite so directly, but most as you say.

And love alone has few ethics or morality. At least what the low-grade warm fuzzy comfort love you seem to espouse. For example, Jimmy Cagney's bad guy in White Heat had a whole lot of that love for his ma.