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I can only say why I shared it here: I thought it would be of interest to hackers. That's what these doctors are doing...hacking the end of life.

• fsloth 12y ago
  Thanks for sharing. Reading and thinking about this makes me feel rather relieved about the 'Do Not Resusciate' status a close person to me had before dying.
• shiggerino 12y ago
  I once had a conversation with some ER nurses about the best way to commit suicide. They took indeed a very hacker-like approach to the problem. Some of the suggestions were insulin or potassium overdoses. Maybe not what you'd expect as a layperson. It seems like the go-to drug for terminally ill patients is often hoarded morphine or morphine derivatives, but death is slow and drawn-out, and someone might get the brilliant idea to resuscitate you, leaving you brain damaged and worse off than the situation you tried to escape from.