I had a cop tell me a story about a drug overdose victim that stopped breathing after vomiting out a can of Spaghettios. He didn’t try to resuscitate him. He didn’t feel guilty. He waited for the firemen.
On a day that I took off my crew was quite upset. They showed up on a scene where a man had lost his keys in a storm sewer grate. He pulled the grate up and tried to reach them. Unfortunately he slipped into the hole and got stuck and drowned. When my crew showed up his legs were sticking out of the hole and they were still twitching. Several cops were standing around doing nothing. They said that they thought it might be a crime scene and they just wanted us to confirm that he was dead. My crew pulled him out of the hole and started CPR. They got a rhythm back, but the man died later anyway.