Clicking through to one of the references[0] in the article suggests that a little over 40% of people successfully resuscitated never wake up. So that drops us

Clicking through to one of the references[0] in the article suggests that a little over 40% of people successfully resuscitated never wake up. So that drops us from 10% out-of-hospital / 17% in-hospital to 6%/10%. That's still not nothing, but you also need to look at what percentage end up with severe enough brain damage that they're not really the same person anymore, and might have preferred death over that situation. I value my life quite a lot, but I also value quality of life. I think there are quite a few physical and (especially) mental disabilities that I might not want to live with. To your point about "ribs broken & alive for a week", I suspect that situation would be helpful for my loved ones to be able to see me and say goodbye, but not so helpful for myself. [0] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8548866/#Fig3 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8548866/#Fig3