For many, a ‘natural death’ may be preferable to enduring CPR

“In 2010 a review of 79 studies, involving almost 150,000 patients, found that the overall rate of survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest had barely changed in thirty years. It was 7.6%. Bystander-initiated CPR may increase those odds to 10%.”

The risks of CPR include painful broken ribs, liver lacerations, pulmonary hemorrhages, broken sternum, and brain injury.  The traumatic nature of CPR may be why as many as half of patients who survive wish they hadn’t received it, even though they lived.

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