You might involuntarily become a victim, but you cannot involuntarily stop being one. Tis best to be decisive even if it means you are wrong. The hardest thing to do in an ICU is nothing. Credibility must be both earned and deserved, but, sadly, it may also be ignored. The words, experience and respect can be substituted for credibility just as well.
Death is an entirely natural process.
It is not the most horrible or final or reprehensible thing that can happen to you - it just has the most unanswerable questions. There is a time to be a porcupine and a time to be a kitten. Every successful moviegoer suspends disbelief. So does every successful parent. All rights reserved.