NO CPR

You would encounter this two words if you are a healthcare worker. It may seen brutal to other people but it's the medical words doctors use to free a patient from further suffering. If you are the family member on the other hand, you would be filled with guilt once you make your loved one as NO CPR. It's easier said then done. Can you imagine by signing the NO CPR, meaning you are giving permission to all healthcare workers not to do any heroic measures whenever your loved one stops breathing or the heart rate stops. Pretty heavy, huh? However, you have to put your shoes on that sick person, when you become apneic (absence of breathing), or the cardiac monitor flashes a red word ASSYSTOLE (absence of pulse) and annoying alarm, imagine, the medical team would pound on your chest and put a mask on both your nose and mouth and blow air to help you breath? Technical it may seem if you are a nurse or a doctor, but too emotional if you are a lay man. Too difficult to decide for it would be a lifetime of guilt. But that is life, there is a beginning and there is an end, the question is when will it end?