ubiquitin: Disregard the quotation marks around suffering. I didn’t intend the quotations in the sense you understood it. (i.e. that they aren’t suffering.)
The hospital staff can at times go further than just not treating a suffering patient and let him die. At times they will facilitate his death. Or not feed him. Or not treat him for common ailments readily remedied that will cause death if left unattended. All of this has been widely reported on over the past decade and longer.