[napscoordinator]

I’m confused. Don’t we all have DNRs? I mean I believe none of us want machines living for us. Perhaps it’s different in Canada.

[familyop]

Yes, we have them, too. Some patients who are cognizant enough choose to sign their own DNRs.

[Jamestown1630]

There was a story just recently about someone who had gone through sexual transition surgery/therapy, and was so unhappy with the outcome that they wanted to seek medically assisted suicide.

Another person was offered it simply because they were disabled and had been seeking for years an accommodation to help her navigate her home.

Apparently, in Canada, it’s not just for people who are on life support.

[Varda]

You’ve been misinformed. Never sign a DNR.

[PrairieLady2]

No, we don’t all have DNR’s. Some of us, admittedly only a few, realize that machines help in the shortrun, and save lives. Very few are used in the longrun. They are expensive.

When death is inevitable, it happens despite the best laid plans of mice and men.

[higgmeister]

Holy Smokes!   I would never have a DNR on my hospital chart!   My Dad had a DNR and they let him die.   Only a few years later doctors were performing quadruple bypass operations on 90 year old men.   l want to be hooked up until I start to stink.