It is compassionate to want a patient to stop suffering.
Dr. Dan is talking with the family of a comatose and terminally ill patient at a hospital.
Dr. Dan wants the family to make a choice for the man.
Dr. Dan explains that machines may be unplugged and the man, who will never recover, may die naturally.
Dr. Dan explains that there is no chance for the man to recover, but a choice can be made to keep the man alive by machines.
The family chooses to let nature take its course and let the agony of disease come to a conclusion.
The family chooses this and Pain, misery and torment are prolonged for an uncertain amount of time.