Personal Statement: Do Not Resuscitate Order

I believe in everyone’s rights to not wanting extreme measures on keeping them alive also known as a Do Not Resuscitate order. I am strongly believe it is a right everyone should keep in mind for themselves in my mind. Anyone with this type of order signed should be respected by their loved ones when or if it comes to that time in their lives. My beliefs in respecting these orders to anyone who has signed or brought it up to their loved ones come from many personal and professional experiences in my life. One personal experience actually involved my maternal grandma. My grandma was a women of faith and attended church every Sunday. She was happily married to my grandpa and three girls, two son in laws, and six grandchildren. She was active in their church and loved to play bingo with my grandpa and her sister and brother in law every Sunday after church. She would do anything she could for anyone to help them out. She was generous and caring. In the year of 1996, my grandma was diagnosed with several diseases chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and congestive heart failure. She was also told then she probably had about a year to live. It was not till she beat the year they told her she had when she gradually became worse. In 2000 my grandma had broken her arm and was told she needed surgery and it was going to be high risk due to her oxygen. That is then when my grandma had first mention a DNR to all of us. We all were skeptical on this as grandma was young and we all felt she should

In my experiences thought I see some who have taken extreme measures to live and what in my own opinion is that some are just existing not living at all. Do not get me wrong it is hard to accept the decision of a loved one, but respecting them should be easier then fighting and watch them deteriorate to nothing they used to