(11-21-2018, 01:10 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote:

(11-20-2018, 11:08 PM)rollerjag Wrote: The hospital staff violated her DNR. If they were informed of such, they should be sued.

Agreed. I have a DNR, because if I get so bad that my quality of life is compromised, I want them to just let me go. If anyone were to ever violate my DNR, I'd sue them to.

Thats sounds more like a living will (i.e. I don't want to kept on a ventilator more than 72 hours, don't want a feeding tube, etc). A DNR is a 'if I die unexpectedly, just let me go' kind of thing, and really isn't directly connected to quality of life (although people with poor quality of life, often have DNRs and some nursing homes have DNR as a requirement). You can have a living will without being DNR, and you can have a DNR without a living will (although this doesn't usually happen).

Whenever I talk about with people about this the conversation for DNR is usually presented as 'If you have a heart attack in 2 hours when no one but me and you are in the room, do you want me to do compression and try to bring you back, or just let you go.' Its much simpler than a living will, which has many levels of care involved.

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