How would you feel if you were an ems called to resurrect someone who died from suicide?

[marksofdespair]

What would you do in this situation? Obviously, you're not really going to have much of a choice but to save them with others around, but how would you really feel about it? Guilty?

 

[Forever Sleep]

I'd feel massively conflicted about it. Definitely guilty. Not sure I'd want to do a job that totally bulldozes other people's autonomy. Even if it's supposed to be for their own good. I'd feel like such a hypocrite too. Of course- it would depend on whether they called ems themselves. Obviously, if they called then- that's something else.

I don't really like hypocrisy/ lying/ towing the company line in any job to be honest. I'd struggle even to teach in my specialist subject because, I coudln't genuinely fill them with optimism about finding a job/ having a successful career- when I know how hard it is. I think a lot of jobs are probably dishonest in some way.

 

[nyotei_]

if you went through training you likely would not have made it as an EMT if you felt like you couldn't handle this situation. either way if you don't do it, you're looking at a loss of a job and probably a lot of legal issues, and you have to decide if that is worth it to preserve your integrity and ideology. best to just not become an EMT in the first place.