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In Saving Private Ryan, Wade, the medic, while bleeding out for wounds asks for "More morphine" after he was already given a morphine dose, and everybody became serious when he asked this. Was this second morphine dose considered fatal? Did WWII medics use morphine as euthanasia? NSFW

by /u/Spam4119 in /r/AskHistorians

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