One of my next steps is to sign a dnr. I have cancer and no longer wish to live if I'm not cured soon. I would probably feel differently if things were different but I've come to terms with it. We all die. Why prolong the agony.

If you arrest outside the hospital, your chances are a good deal worse than 20%... Particularly in most rural areas. I work as a paramedic in rural northwestern Pennsylvania and I've been keeping score for about 30 years. Surviving an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest AND remaining neurologically intact is around 8% in Erie County, PA. Five year survival is somewhat less than 10% for those that ARE successfully resuscitated. As far as I'm concerned, save you effort for cases with a better chance for meaningful survival. Do not resuscitate me.

No

Yes I do! That is why I train our student nurses. Yes bloody keep me alive. I have a lot to do yet.

My thought process is this, my brain is me. If my brain is damaged to the point consciousness isn't possible then I'm already dead, no point in supporting the support structure if the brain is gone.

I have very specific instructions that I left prior to going to Afghanistan earlier this year. If say, I'm in a coma for 60 days, pull the plug.
But I suppose if I had a heart attack and was brought back quickly... Sure. I still have MUCH I need to see before I go.

Considering that I look forward to nonexistence, no.

Depends on my physical or mental state... If I'm showing signs of dementia I'm a danger to everyone around me and I'd put myself down. If I'm unable to move at all, I want the plug to be pulled. If I've got a terminal illness I want to die. I've lived with a woman who was terminally ill and her last year... Waking up to her screams of pain... That shit is etched in my brain. That year she was either drugged out of her mind and asleep or writhing in pain. Awful.

It depends...

Nope, no heroic measures, no machines.

At my age, no and I have informed my family of that.

i have wanted to die since i was young why would i wanna be revived

Not if the prognosis is poor - if I’ll have no real quality of life, just lying there like a blob, no matter my mental condition. If I can’t LIVE, I don’t want to live.

Yes. Life is worth living

I have both a living will and a DNR. Also, paperwork regarding guardianship of my children, my estate, and my wishes to be cremated.
It was wrote it when I was 27. I faced cancer alone and needed to be sure I had a plan in place.

I'm one of the lucky few. I arrested out of hospital 18 months ago. I was down for about 20 minutes I believe but was given quality CPR. I was in an induced coma for about a week after that, during which time family were told at first I probably wouldn't make it, and eventually that I'd probably survive but with an unknown degree of brain injury. Had I somehow had forewarning of this I guess my choice would be DNR. As it happens I've made what I think is a 99.9% recovery! Perhaps very slightly more forgetful than before, and 5-10 seconds of being unable to get any words out, but that's only happened 6 or 7 times. The only struggle for me now is the emotional side of things, trying to come to terms with it all and move forward. I'm fairly active in a community of UK cardiac arrest survivors and many say exactly the same. I'm personally so grateful I hadn't given any prior opinion on resuscitation, though i realise this is largely down to pure chance and things could've worked out very different!

I'm immortal, prove me wrong.

No, we spend our entire life preparing to die...I don't want to fail at that.

Of course I would always choose life.

Had 3 close calls-no breathing or feeding tubes

No I do not want to be resuscitated! At a younger age I would feel different, but now I have left instructions...’do not resuscitate!’ I am trying to live ‘fully,’ now and I will leave in peace, when ‘the time’ comes!

No resussitation, and my body goes to a body farm. No embalming, no grave. For me it's not going to be "rest in peace", it will be "rot in peace."

Not currently.

I do not want to be resuscitated if there is likely to be catastrophic or irreversible...brain damage..or if injuries and or damage drastically diminish quality of life..as in paralysis from the neck down..vegitative state..or massive stroke leaving me me immobile or uncommunicative...

I was anRN forever 30 years and few have advanced directives and some even rescinded theirs but as long as I can live is great but not like a turnip.... euthanizing is my answer to stage 4 cancer

I have never thought about it before, but I guess I should.