Agree 100%... it is EXTREMELY disrespectful, only someone that has never been in a situation involving death would ask the question... I refuse to answer.
My uncle came down with jaundice and had a bad liver (was also diabetic). they placed him in icu for 3 days on constant dialysis but his condition never improved. he didn't respond to any of us. although his older brothers and mother were there, they put the onus on me to decide whether to continue treating him or "let him go". i let him go. yea, i didn't kill him directly. but to this day, i still don't know if it was the right decision. i'm just glad he's not suffering.
That took convincing and indoctrination of political principles under a dictatorship government. Now a guy can just go online and ask for the easiest way to desensitize himself from his consciousness for when they want to end another person's life.
I became friends with an old guy who fought with Patton, including the Battle of the Bulge. He was proud of his service and talked about some of his experiences, but never the combat part... though you could tell by the way he avoided it he had yet to make total peace with whatever he had done. Still, he was generally an optimistic old coot and the only time I saw it come out in any way was when we were driving to a meeting and it was snowing. We were driving through the woods in New Mexico and he said something like: "I hate seeing snow in the forest. Since I got back, I've never gone in the woods until all the snow is gone." He was silent and morose for about 5 minutes before he snapped out of it. My grandfather and uncles never got that close to talking about it and I never asked them directly. I do have an uncle that flew fighter jets in Nam and he occasionally will talk about his experiences... and he knows he killed people, but according to him, he never saw it really happen.
I performed CPR on a woman who had been hit by a bus on Richmond. I'm pretty sure I killed her as she was elderly and I literally shattered her ribcage into a hundred pieces when I pressed down on her. Her being so frail and me being jacked up on adrenaline and fresh out of the gym did not help.
That means more than likely you were doing good compressions. Broken ribs are the last thing a person should be worried about if someone is having to do chest compressions on them (if they survive).
I know broken ribs/sternum are common. But this lady was ancient. And I was pretty jacked up. Plus she was laying on hard concrete. Her chest crumpled under my fists like I was pushing on a bag of popcorn. I almost through up it was so disturbing.
