Reports citing emergency dispatch audio said responders were called to McConnell’s residence on June 14 for an unconscious patient and later discussed “CPR in progress” for a possible cardiac emergency.
Oh! So, we’ve escalated from him being found unconscious and rushed to the hospital to active CPR? Wouldn’t it have been something if the Republican stance of allowing doctors to decline giving medical care on moral grounds ended up being applied against the interests of the long-term cancer that is McConnell?
I’ve heard EMTs refer to the result of CPR on elderly people as “bone soup.” Almost every time it’s described in detail, you get people saying they’ll definitely get a DNR order when they get up there in age.
Yeah most doctors refuse CPR. Very few people receive CPR and then have a good quality of life afterwards.
Edit: Relevant article https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/29/1177914622/a-natural-death-may-be-preferable-for-many-than-enduring-cpr
Well, it’s “preferable” until the time comes. Then they probably have second thoughts.
It’s like the people who survive suicide by jumping and say, “I realized when I jumped that everything could be fixed, but jumping.”
I think it would take an extremely poor quality of life for me to consider death preferable. Look at what some people endure when they know the alternative is literally nothing.
No. Just because death is quiet and painless doesn’t mean it’s not always inferior to the experiences of living.
My dad had a Do Not Resuscitate order on file with the home he lived in for the last two years of his life. It was ignored. CPR got him to the hospital where he died a couple of hours later.
His final moments could have been far more peaceful. I hope you sued the home for ignoring his DNR…