Whiff speaks wisely. Before making the decision to resuscitate I would urge everyone to have a clear idea of what it actually entails.
It is not like the television! It is brutal and usually involves injuring the body painfully and sometimes severely. There can be permanent effects upon the brain too.
I have, unfortunately, been in the position of having to deal with resuscitation issues for several members of my family.
The first time was for my mother, nearly forty years ago. Nobody in the hospital asked and so she was resuscitated although she was only days away from dying of cancer. All that was achieved was a few more days of agony not only from the cancer but from resuscitation injuries.
I was thankful when my husband, also dying from cancer, was adamant that he should not be resuscitated.
My sister arrested during a heart operation and was resuscitated. The stress of resuscitation caused a massive bleed in her brain and she was put on life support. I had to make the decision to turn it off. My big fear was that she would be kept in a coma, brain dead, and that I would have to go to court to end her life.
People think of course I would want to be brought back to life, but it is very unlikely to be life as it was before. The lack of oxygen even if resuscitation is successful, has consequences for the brain and all resuscitation techniques have consequences for the body.