In hindsight the decision is easy, at the time less so. The patient was making informed decisions alongside family but the speed and nature of necrotizing fasci

In hindsight the decision is easy, at the time less so. The patient was making informed decisions alongside family but the speed and nature of necrotizing fasciitis make it very difficult. The skin can look largely fine until you begin surgery and find that the infection has spread 12 full inches along the fascia. So you cut that all out, plus some margin and hope for the best. There certainly was a chance he could have lived after the second surgery with a very altered life. And I get that, now that I have children I’d probably chose to live a very rough life just for a chance to watch them grow up. I truly can’t imagine what that man and his family went through in that short period of time. Decision making I slow decline with weeks or months is hard enough.