Beliefs about euthanasia

[boyce]

The situation is likely to have more uncertainty in the litigious US where emergency services may be fearful of being sued for failing to try to keep a patient alive.

Where would you keep your DNR and what legal value does it carry? DNRs might have more importance in a hospital environment compared with a medical-emergency situation.

Whether a medical bracelet displaying a DNR statement would work might vary from state to state and just as importantly from country to country.

[Shaunc]

I had to have our family dog put down a few years ago and no doubt that there's a certain amount of bad karma coming my way for that action, however, if I'd let him suffer, I have no doubt that there'd be a whole lot more bad karma coming my way.
It's hard to always do right, sometimes you've just got to pick to do the least amount of harm.