realtalk – I completely understand what you are saying. Even if we, ourselves wouldn’t make that decision, and even if it is the wrong moral decision, I completely understand what you are saying. Not every non-Torah person who lets someone die is cruel, heartless, nazi-ish etc. Sometimes they are just people who imagine that no human could ever want to be alive when they are no longer productive and they feel that this is the natural and humanistic thing to do. I have seen it, heard it and experienced it. And I have seen many sharp witted, fully independent elderly people sign DNR’s behind their children’s backs to make sure they go when “it’s time”.
That doesn’t mean I believe it is a human choice, it means I believe that human’s feel it is their choice.