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The main reason to go DNR is for quality of life concerns. Once an elderly person has already been impaired by a stroke or some other chronic condition, adding
by crispyambulance 9y ago
The main reason to go DNR is for quality of life concerns. Once an elderly person has already been impaired by a stroke or some other chronic condition, adding more "medicalized" life-extension on top of that is cruel.
24-7 skilled nursing care is a miserable way to exist, regardless of who pays the US ~ $10K/month bill.