Euthanasia. The issue of resuscitation

Euthanasia in this country is illegal, but issues surrounding 'do not resuscitate' guidelines raise the questions on the right to a death with dignity for many nurses. In this paper the author discusses the statement by the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and advises health practitioners to use this statement as a guideline for their own policy and framework in hospitals and not to accept this framework as implicit.