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realtalk,
who are you to decide what is better for this person, for the record there are many 80 year olds that have been successfully resuscitated and are living a regular life.
This did not happen in bed, nor was this woman found with an unknown downtime, which means that if she is successfully resuscitated chances are that she will have no or minor deficits.
Nurses do not go to school to learn how to decide on when someone should die peacefully, thats not what ACLS is all about.
The fact that the family wasnt upset means nothing, this is the normal American response, they are happy that she is no longer a burden. When I once successfully resuscitated a older patient and called the son for the medical history, the son was all mad, “why didnt you let her die?”
The fact that she had no problem that a human will die because of her inaction, (which includes not having someone else to CPR) and she fully knew this, is somewhat nazi like.