Ventilators are a death sentence under NO circumstances should his family put him on a ventilator!!!
Thank you Doctor.
No, that is an incredibly stupid premise. If you are far gone enough to put on a ventilator, you are going to die without it. The ventilator gives your lungs one last shot to heal up.
I had a friend who was intubuleted and ventilated and he recovered. He was found unconscious in his apartment, and taken to the hospital in an ambulance. It was touch and go, but he survived.