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by crispyambulance 3123 days ago
The main reason to go DNR is for quality of life concerns. Once an elderly person has already been impaired by a stroke or some other chronic condition, adding more "medicalized" life-extension on top of that is cruel.

24-7 skilled nursing care is a miserable way to exist, regardless of who pays the US ~ $10K/month bill.