[Adder]

The same logic will allow me to take granny to the woods to die because she's wheelchair bound, can't eat by herself and is incontinent and inconvenient.

Its not euthanasia. Its like a dnr order.

Difference here is that "medical professionals" are making the call, not the families. "Medical professionals" who are not above watching the bottom line, playing God.

[jaybee]

I won't take granny to the woods, but I also won't jam a feeding tube in her 99 year old body. Sometimes we need to let God instead of medicine decide the future. In the case of both Granny and the poor baby, keep them warm, hold them close, and let nature take its course.

[Muzzle_em]

This IS a touchy subject and I KNOW I will get flamed for my comments!

If an elderly invalid is very sick with say, pneumonia, and has little hope of recovery, do you think it is fair to that person for his/her family to demand that the medical team put that person through the trauma (and it CAN be very traumatic, i.e. broken ribs, etc.) of resuscitation, simply because the family just cannot bear to let go?
IMO, when a person has reached his or her 90's, he has been BLESSED with a FULL life. DNR is NOT the same as wheeling Granny out to the woods and leaving her nor is it putting a pillow on her face to end her suffering.