Euthanasia in New Orleans?

I keep asking the question, "Can the news out of Katrina possibly get any worse?" Someone needs to tell me to STOP asking that question, because the answer is always yes.

More than one medical professional is under scrutiny as a possible person of interest as Louisiana's attorney general investigates whether hospital workers resorted to euthanasia in the chaotic days after Hurricane Katrina shattered New Orleans, a source familiar with the investigation has told CNN...Dr. Bryant King, a contract physician for Memorial who was working there when conditions were at their worst, told CNN exclusively that another doctor came to him at 9 a.m. on Thursday, and recounted a conversation that they had had with a hospital administrator. According to King, the doctor said that the administrator suggested patients be put "out of their misery." When King objected, this physician acknowledged his concerns but said that "this other [third] doctor said she'd be willing to do it."

I have been highly skeptical of those who have been eager to call Katrina a case of Divine Judgement. (1) Disaters happen all over the world and "rain falls on the just and the unjust." (2) Depending on who you talked to, the judgement was for (a) New Orlean's "sinful" lifestyle, (b) the War in Iraq, (c) allowing Terri Shiavo to die, (d) abortion, (e) Invading Afghanistan, (f) other random reason. But the depths to which things appear to have sunk in the region - spiritually as well as physically - is starting to make me wonder.