Woman dies as nurse refuses to perform CPR

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84. Weird, huh? None of the articles said there was a DNR. Ever.

The scary thing is the callousness of what appear to be health professionals in this thread. And the talk of what a waste CPR is and the legally incorrect suggestion that uninvited CPR is assault (it's not, you have good samaritan immunity if you're trained to do CPR).

It reminds me of the nurses in the hospice where my mom lived the last 6 weeks of her life. She had terminal cancer and had just suffered a paralyzing stroke; she could not talk or even feed herself. For the 6 weeks she lived that way, I visited her every day only to find she had been fed carelessly, with food stuck to her neck and hair. Every day I would wash the food off of her and check her diaper--it was always in need of changing and I always had to ask someone to get to it. On one of those days, one of the nurses walked by as my mother's diaper was soiled and smelling. All the nurse did was pinch her nose and say "stinky." My mom may have been paralyzed, but she could still hear. I could see her eyes dart at that nurse's direction and narrow. She heard her, and she was mad. I was horrified. I should have ripped that nurse's head off but all I said was that she needed to be changed, that is why there is a smell. The thought of my mom, a dignified, educated women who had taken fastidious care of herself all her life to have been dependent on the indifferent, indeed degrading, treatment of these nurses still haunts me to this day.