Care & Protection of Beth

A single justice has reserved and reported the correctness of a substituted judgment determination calling for a “no code”1 order to be entered on the medical charts of *189an incompetent minor ward. A judge of the Holyoke Division of the District Court determined that an infant in a persistent vegetative coma would choose, were she competent, to have the “no code” order entered on her medical charts. For the reasons stated we affirm.

Facts. The child whose treatment is at issue was born on September 30, 1986. Her mother and putative father were both minors at the time. Less than one month after…