@JacquiDeevoy1 - Jacqui Deevoy

I still have a copy of my dad’s DNR. There’s no signature and no boxes ticked. In June 2021, I emailed my dad’s GP to tell her that under no circumstances should there be a DNR on him. The GP assured me that there wasn’t one in place. The day he died, while I was driving to be with him, one of the paramedics asked a step-relative who’d turned up whether my dad had a DNR in place. The step-relative said yes. According to my dad’s carer, the paramedic seemed pleased and proceeded to make a ‘best interests’ decision. It would appear that he believed that it was in my dad’s best interests to be dead. Half an hour later, after a hefty dose of a drug my dad had never had before, my dad (who had no known illness and who wasn’t at the end of his life or having palliative care), aged 78, died a most terrifying and undignified death.