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The woman died of terminal lung cancer, complicated by a broken neck. A DNR order was entirely appropriate under the circumstances.

The man is angry his wife is dead and doesn't seem to have understood there was nothing to be done for her other than make her as comfortable as possible.

In my opinion it's cruel to ask frightened people to agree to a DNR order when death is imminent and when a person is on a terminally ill list DNR should be standard procedure.

You, like this man, seem to think people can live forever with cancer. Well, they can't. Lung cancer has a high mortality rate that increases with age.

It's ludicrous to claim that woman died before she had to.

If I were her husband, I'd be grateful she died before her tissues started breaking down and leaking from her body every time she was touched.

I'd be grateful she didn't get to the point where she was kept stupefied by a morphine pump.

It's awful, Mathurin.

Cancer literally stinks.

She seems to have slipped away relatively peacefully with much of her dignity intact.

According to you, she wouldn't have been able to do that in the USA because doctors aren't allowed to let people die until there is nothing left of them.