Seems to be a pretty biased article. Sounds like she was dying of cancer and the doctors done her a favour, but without all the details we will never know.

Because you cannot save one life at the expense of other, even less in this rational way, like bureaucracy.
Of course you can e.g. two patients and one life support machine, who should have it? The one with the chance of pulling through or the one with no chance at all? I'm sure these decision are made every day in hospitals, and rightly so.