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Overnight Hope-a-Dope

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realwest1/25/2009 7:24:17 am PST

Good morning y’all - just came back from neighbor’s apartment - he just died.
Mom and I stayed to help comfort his widow, the EMT asked ME what they should do and I said whatever you can and they showed me a do not resuscitate order he had signed and - without asking the now widow - I said this says his doctor is the one to make the decision so unfortunately I prolonged her agony as they tried to save him - until she said no more, please.
By then her daughter and son in law arrived and confirmed that they wanted the EMT’s to stop trying to save him (I watched them give him atropine and proper resuscitation and all first).
Shit.