i am a firm believer in the quality of life . in fact most of my surgical work is based on it.the very reason for operating sometimes in elderly ages is to enable the person to be painfree mobile and independant. sometimes we are forced to terminate life as in post traumatic brain dead cases.but this is done after an extensive (i should say exhaustive)process after sometimes days and weeks of artificial life support. it is beyond the scope of this forum to go into the elaborate procedures followed.suffice it is to say that (at the risk of repetition) there are still several grey areas in the euthanasia scene .hopefully these boundaries will become clearer in future.

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