Sinsull, I think, under the circumstances, if it was my loved one, I would rather take the chance that they might die during evacuation, but that they also might not die, rather than just kill them outright. Don't you think you would want to give your loved one at least a chance to survive?

People were in the process of being evacuated from that hospital. They made an arbitrary decision that everyone on that floor with a DNR order was not to be evacuated, regardless of their circumstances.

That seems more like an execution than a mercy killing to me.