If you know that you want a DNR; “Do Not Resuscitate” Order in your personal file, be sure to specifically ask for one, then check on it from time to time. Is it ‘current’?
If you are ambivalent and don’t wish to make that choice, then do not make that choice. No one has to. Leave it up to fate and the will of doctors.
Why does it have to be the will of the doctors? Why don’t we get any say in our own lives?
I will never have a DNR. If my husband had had one, he would not be alive today. There was one bad day and he started to get better. I actually got a call to go say “good-bye”. I instructed the hospital to never allow that quack doctor near him again. My husband or my son can decide better than anyone else if I should be helped or not. This happened about 15 years or so ago and it still gives me nightmares.
I have a form I do need to fill out with my wishes on some things but it will all be for life support unless my family deems it hopeless.