I work(ed) in EMS. I have clearly expressed wishes on a POLST form (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment, essentially DNR 2.0, with a lot more nuance,

I work(ed) in EMS. I have clearly expressed wishes on a POLST form (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment, essentially DNR 2.0, with a lot more nuance, like tube feeding, pain management, supplemental oxygen. Actual DNRs are largely extinct). I entirely agree with your parents about the level of effort, not to mention the unpleasantness, pain and suffering associated with fighting off a natural death. But in the context of this article, we are specifically talking about the patients themselves, having coherently expressed a wish to be resuscitated were being pressured into signing DNR paperwork. That's not the same thing as your situation, and I say that as someone who has had to coach hundreds of family members through end of life events, both expected and unexpected. I have done things like ordering continuing CPR on a patient who had no survival outcome expected, just because he was still minimally responsive and his spouse was almost there to say goodbye (he was bleeding internally and could not be stabilized for surgery). She got to squeeze his hand, and feel him squeeze hers back before we discontinued resuscitation and allowed him to pass. And I have done things like brought the "head of the family" into the resuscitation bay because he and the family were adamant in the face of all reality that "God was going to pull their father through" the cardiac arrest he was in. Though painful, it took him but a few minutes to grasp the reality, that all stops had been pulled out, but that we were at the end of the road. Following that, he was able to understand, ask us to discontinue, and be able to go back to the family and explain.