I repeat Carol: Who are "they"? Certainly not the doctors and nurses who were left with patients suffering horribly and no aid in sight. So who should be before a jury? The people who dealt a death sentence on the ill or the ones who risked their own lives to stay behind and care for them AND see to it that they died peacefully?
Euthanasia without the consent of the dying - I would not want to be left in charge. I have euthanized numerous beloved pets and it was agony but it was right.
Faced with watching a loved one I respected and treasured die an inch at a time in pain, I would end their suffering. I would in the law's eyes murder them and sleep at night knowing I had done the right thing.
My father was dying an inch at a time. I allowed him to be sent home with the promise of a visiting nurse knowing that he would die at home and quickly. He did and I have no regrets.