Survival rates aside, CPR on the elderly can be particularly brutal. CPR is basically beating the crap out of someone in order to drag them back from death. Y

Survival rates aside, CPR on the elderly can be particularly brutal. CPR is basically beating the crap out of someone in order to drag them back from death. You're talking about inflicting serious damage on people who take damage more easily, struggle to recover and are significantly more likely to suffer medical complications from even minor injuries. We like to place human life in an echelon of the sacred above all other life - and sometimes this leads to us being kinder to our pets than we are to ourselves. A healthcare system that prioritises quality over quantity of life could yield better results, but that's not going to happen as long as things are controlled by a gluttonous hydra of an industry that has a fiduciary duty to its stockholders, but no real duty of care to the patients.