Meredith, thanks for your reply, sorry I misunderstood.

As a matter of interest, I was reading a while back about some doctor who had tattooed on his chest DO NOT RESUSITATE. He said what people don't realise is for every person who fully recovers when resusitated there are many who are revived and left brain damaged because their brain has been without oxygen for too long.

He was in the older vintage and I guess that makes him less likely to want to risk being resusitated because he doesn't have that many years left anyway. Old people are understandibly less upset by the thought of death.