Quote Originally Posted by Perdita View Post
Maybe the writers/producers don't want to make it too realistic as young children might be watching and John would have been drugged up to his eyeballs with painkillers, would he have felt pain when Moira was leaning over him?
he would have been so drugged up he wouldnt have coherently made sense or spoken to her? I can understand it is before the watershed, so you have to 'pretty' it up a little, but doesnt it give a false impression that all hospitals and treatments are lovely and clean and we all die by flatlining after saying goodbye and a tender moment across the sheets...