Paramedics Told: 'Let Accident Victims Die if They Want To'' in New Row Over Patient Rights

Health Service paramedics have been told not to resuscitate terminally-ill patients who register on a controversial new database to say they want to die. It has been set up by the ambulance service in London for hundreds of people who have only a few months to live so that they may register their 'death wishes' in advance. UK DNR Registry. As Wesley Smith points out here, the title is missleading. This is speaking of a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) request for terminal patients - which is perfectly ethical and in line with Hospice's standard of care for end-of-life - and not and act to deliberately hasten death (euthanasia/physician-assisted suicide).