Re: What is the default action for infants?

Further... 3) No external person or body, whether a doctor or medical committee, family, a court, or a legislature, will be immune from ideological biases sometimes preventing the ideal decision to be executed. Admittedly, any possible answer might be said to have an ideological bias as to where life "should" begin and end - but it needs being said. 4) Much further than the question of people who cannot decide or communicate the decision, I think the most pressing issue is to have the people who CAN, be respected in it. Whether someone is asking to extend their lives even against all odds, or asking to terminate it in spite of more positive odds, they should be respected in it, and nobody outside should be allowed to override that decision. That is what I mean when I say that life is just the most momentuous expression of autonomy, but nonetheless a part of autonomy, and that familial / institutional / state decisions forcing life are just as violating of autonomy as the same body deciding to force death.