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Re:A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than endurin... by MengerSponge on Monday May 29, 2023 @04:32PM (#36117761)
Doing CPR is scary and hard, and if it's okay to teach people that while it probably won't work, it won't make things worse, and if you're lucky it'll save a life.

Transparency is a small kindness to help the people who do CPR not beat themselves up when it (probably) fails.

*illusion (sorry)

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Re:A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than endurin... by groestl on Monday May 29, 2023 @04:38PM (#36117832)
I think the risk that people don't even start if they worry about survival rates is higher.
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Re:A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than endurin... by henry2023 on Monday May 29, 2023 @04:53PM (#36118007)
> it won't make things worse

Maybe you should read the article.

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Re:A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than endurin... by dghlsakjg on Monday May 29, 2023 @05:59PM (#36118615)
One of the preconditions for CPR treatment is that the patient has no heartbeat. The patient is dead, or going to be dead (depending on how you define dead) very shortly without CPR.

So, while the side effects of CPR can be pretty bad, not receiving CPR means guaranteed death.

That's what people mean when they say it won't make things worse.

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Re:A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than endurin... by rjmorris on Monday May 29, 2023 @08:16PM (#36119690)
The article pointed to a study noting that about half of patients who survived wished they hadn't. In other words, they found survival to be a worse outcome than death.
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Re:A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than endurin... by dghlsakjg on Monday May 29, 2023 @11:31PM (#36120832)
What did the dead people report as their most desirable outcome?
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Re:A 'natural death' may be preferable for many than endurin... by boringg on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @09:18AM (#36124527)
What a strange quote and data point. So 1/4 people didn't want to survive, 1/2 didn't get a chance to choose and 1/4 was happy to survive.
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