That hospital is sooo cap. If they can preserve your life they’ll try to preserve your life, they ain’t gonna be like “nah, we finna let you die”. This wasn’t even consented euthanasia, this straight up tellin’ her “you gon’ die, sorry for the inconvenience.”
Given the time in where this story is set I don’t think it should matter wether he’s homophobic or not, rather it’d be a bigger deal if he was homosexual.
Honestly you could definitely get an easy 3 volumes outta something like this. Short plot that wraps itself up and fit into a magazine as an extra weekly or biweekly series.