The rib breaking is very real. And 93% of the time it only traumatizes the giver and adds more suffering to the receiver who dies anyway. https://www.npr.org/se

The rib breaking is very real. And 93% of the time it only traumatizes the giver and adds more suffering to the receiver who dies anyway. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/29/1177914622/a-natural-death-may-be-preferable-for-many-than-enduring-cpr https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/05/29/1177914... There are also "humans are space orcs" devices like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_assist_device https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventricular_assist_device that can keep blood circulating even when the heart cannot. Or this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_positive_airway_pressure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_positive_airway_pre... that can push all the blood in your lungs from congestive heart failure back into your arteries, only for the lungs to start to slowly fill again, drowning them slowly. Not saying these measures are bad or that we should withhold care, but there is very much an attitude of "keep alive at all costs" to modern medicine that can be hard to witness and potentially traumatizing for caregivers.