What conditions would you have a DNR order?
Under what condition would you have a DNR order? I had a friend who had a DNR if it appeared that keeping him alive meant he would be a vegetable, or hooked up to a machine to keep him alive or if he lived he would be either be a space cadet or just a head attached to a body that didn’t work. If his capacity of life would be more than moderately degraded he had orders no heroics be used to preserve his life. What conditions would you ever entertain a DNR?
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Just what you said, and my prognosis has to be good for after the machine is unhooked for there to be a machine in the first place.
In my signed medical proxy form I gave myself thirty days on a ventilator. If I was still unconscious I ask them to pull the plug. I don’t want to bankrupt my family, and prolong their suffering.
I really don’t know how to answer. If you’d have asked me before I graduated college, I would’ve said I don’t want to ever have a feeding tube and
a vent. Now, however, I’m still
alive because I didn’t have a
DNR. I think that I still want a DNR, but I’m thankful I didn’t have one before!
I would see no point to any heroic efforts in trying to resuscitate me If I were over the age of 90, if I would be a vegetable, or if I would never be free of machine-assisted living.
(The males in my family don’t live past their mid-eighties, so I see no need to extend my life if I’ve already gotten about five years on the rest of them.)
If and when the internet gets turned off or they turn my favorite forest preserve into low income housing….DNR!
I had a cancer scare about 10 years ago. I rewrote my living will to specify no chemotherapy and added a DNR to insure that I didn’t have to spend the rest of my live severely crippled or in pain.
To me, there is no reason to live if I am not fully functional. I do not want an existence as a rest home resident. The only emotion I want to feel when I die is surprise.
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