I’ve read somewhere that if you’re over 70 years old and have multiple medical issues a DNR is what many doctors elect for themselves rather than suffer he agonizing consequences of a lack thereof. Just sayin’.
I rather doubt that, because when my father collapsed in a parking lot in Yuma, the ER doc kept trying to bring him back for over 45 minutes, while my mother was in the next room telling them “He’s gone, give it up already!”
She was more distressed by the “ridiculous antics” of the ER team than his death.
He was 75.
No, she’s not cold, she’s a realist, and his wishes were to avoid “heroic attempts”, but of course the medicos know better.