US Facility defends nurse who refused to perform CPR

[Dedalus]

Eeg, mri, ct scan, deep pain reflexes, body posture, etc.

It is hard on the family to see their loved one like that. People can live for decades with tube feeds, breathing through tracheostomies, adult diapers and catheters...That is my absolute horrific, last way I would ever want to go scenario.

Health is the key. I don't mind getting old - as long as I have my health. It would be torture to endure this ^sort of thing. What is the point? When the quality of life goes - I want to go. Quickly.

 

[beancounter]

Yeah, I've been with too many people suffering through an extended dying process (including both parents) to find the prospect palatable, much less amusing.

I said "functioning normally". Long term suffering is a different story.

 

[beancounter]

Health is the key. I don't mind getting old - as long as I have my health. It would be torture to endure this ^sort of thing. What is the point? When the quality of life goes - I want to go. Quickly.

I thought LB's post was in response to determining a permanent vegetative state. By definition, there is no suffering when a person is brain dead.

 

[Muggle]

I've got it all sorted. I'm going to take myself off to the Netherlands.

 

[Dedalus]

I thought LB's post was in response to determining a permanent vegetative state. By definition, there is no suffering when a person is brain dead.

I wouldn't want any of my loved ones suffering on my behalf though. (Providing I have some left that aren't cats )

 

[RabbitLuvr]

Health is the key. I don't mind getting old - as long as I have my health. It would be torture to endure this ^sort of thing. What is the point? When the quality of life goes - I want to go. Quickly.

This.
(And I equate being in a permanent vegetative state as zero when it comes to quality of life.)

 

[mlp]

I said "functioning normally". Long term suffering is a different story.

Unless one flatlines as a result of some sudden trauma, the chances that one will be functioning normally afterwards aren't that great, especially as one gets to a certain age. After all, there was a reason for the flatlining, and that reason likely is going to keep manifesting itself after one is revived.

 

[Dedalus]

My Mom died of cancer - she had a DNR on file, all of us kids knew her wishes. So she would have haunted us if we had allowed anything contrary to occur.

Anyway - despite her condition, she wanted to live as long as possible - quality of life being the key. She did whatever she had to do - realizing there would be good and bad days in that process. At the end, every waking moment was a struggle to fight the cancer off enough to have some of that quality back. I believe when she realized that she wasn't going to get another good day in, that was enough for her. Thankfully, she passed away very soon after that.

 

[Kitties]

My Mom died of cancer - she had a DNR on file, all of us kids knew her wishes. So she would have haunted us if we had allowed anything contrary to occur.

Anyway - despite her condition, she wanted to live as long as possible - quality of life being the key. She did whatever she had to do - realizing there would be good and bad days in that process. At the end, every waking moment was a struggle to fight the cancer off enough to have some of that quality back. I believe when she realized that she wasn't going to get another good day in, that was enough for her. Thankfully, she passed away very soon after that.

I'm so sorry. Your mother did give her family a great gift though by discussing her wishes. Some people can't do even that.

 

[Kitties]

I figured the company would throw the nurse under the bus when the firestorm of their policy became public.

Missed this post earlier. All I can say is you are 100% right.