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Deborah D.

When Mrs. Deborah D. learned that her mother had been admitted to the intensive care unit as an emergency case after resuscitation, she was shocked. She and her brother knew that their mother did not want to be intubated and kept artificially in a vegetative state. They were unsure if they had made the right decision. Mrs. D also wondered what her mother might be feeling. Her mother then explained that she had never said that she did not want to be resuscitated, but only that she did not want to be kept alive artificially in case of a vegetative state.

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Mrs. Deborah D. experienced a positive atmosphere.

Mrs. Deborah D., daughter of a patient, describes a very positive atmosphere for the patients in the intensive care unit.

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So I found it very good. On the second or third day, I don't remember, there was an extraordinary atmosphere. There were many young people there, young nurses. My mother likes to work with young people, because she always says that all generations are great to mix: I learn, they learn, and everything. And I think it worked really well. Everybody told me, " that we love your mom, she is very cooperative, she was really sweet." And I was very afraid of that; I thought she (my mother) will know she's screwed, she might get angry, she'll want to take it off, she'll.... and then she actually didn't. Well, she was already on a lot of medication, so I think she was a little bit "stoned" too. But I know that they were saying, that they were playing music too; she was almost laughing, well she was saying, they're nice, I don't know, she said, they're nice; then I said: ah, you're lucky and they're cute; then she said yes, yes. She said to me, my mother: I don't know, sometimes I have the impression that I was in a discotheque, I don't know, I don't know where I was, there was noise. So she, was she perhaps also drunk with the drugs, a little euphoric too, I don't know. But in any case, they were sweet.

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