[QUOTE=Peter;4171222][QUOTE=Burney;4171209]
Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post

Of course they didn't kill him. They just let him die. The state, that is.
They conceded - based on huge levels of medical knowledge and a profound understanding of medical ethics - that his death was inevitable and allowed it to happen while ensuring he suffered as little as possible.

A baby bird falls out of the tree. It is clearly badly injured, in shock and too young to survive alone. Its parents cannot save it and it is merely a question of how and when it dies - not if. What is the ethical course of action?