CPR: treating our own fear of death?

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is often framed and perceived as an obligatory course of action, a duty of care. To do otherwise seems a dereliction or disservice, yet “failing” can also invoke trauma and guilt.1 This tends to neglect some essential facts of life. Death is the only inevitability after we are born. Its likelihood and imminence become ever greater as we age and with …