Can we say the same for nontreatment?

His terminology, suggesting that certain children be "selected" for nontreatment, raised uncomfortable reminders of the Holocaust.

The passage of time makes her compliance in the nontreatment an egregious betrayal of four men she truly cares for.

"Unfortunately, nontreatment cannot be verified using analytic techniques," said Lester M. Crawford, the administrator of the Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service.

Dr. Jamison does not, of course, propose nontreatment of manic-depressive illness as an option, since the disease can and often does result in the greatest possible retardation to creativity: death by suicide.

"Normally, we think of medical neglect as nontreatment for meningitis, for example," said Dr. Robert Nelson, a critical care physician at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and former chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Bioethics.