Thread: Would signing a Do Not Resuscitate form be considered suicide?

It's all conditional... based on things like: who it is giving you the mouth to mouth.

I could see where the DNR order would not be suicide. That is simply letting nature take its course. My father refused a feeding tube, and liquids. It took him a month, and a half to pass. Now his "decision" ? Although I had no choice but to respect it, I still feel it was suicide.

My mother had a DNR form when she was slowly paralyzing herself to death with ALS. My question would have been, if it's "suicide" to sign the form...why isn't it "murder" to honor it? Or even hand it to her?

Well if you knew of the DNR and purposely ignored it as a health professional there would consequences. I don't know if they or their survivors can sue you but you would be reprimanded or let go of by the facility. Those orders are taken very seriously.

I think it can be a form of suicide if you choose it to be. You sign a DNR and then attempt suicide, they will have to let you die. Although I believe there was a big thing awhile ago in the news about that and whether it was legal. In order to sign a DNR you have to be in your right mind and they argued that anyone contemplating suicide was not in their right mind.

Most of the people I have seen who have a DNR are elderly or terminally ill. They are on end of life care and do not want to leave behind huge medical bills or have a painfully drawn out death. I see no problem with that. Of course if you are in that state I don't see a problem with doctor assisted suicide either. I have watched family members die in excruciating pain that drugs could not touch. They begged to put out of their misery. I wish the option would have been available then.

It is not suicide. If you are dying, then it just means it lets you die, I would suspect naturally. Because keeping you alive after that would be unnatural I think. Sometimes I think people just need to let go and stop prolonging suffering of calling it love. I don't mean to sound mean, but if it is time just let it be.