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Originally Posted by BarryRX
Perhaps I misunderstood the point you were trying to make in your third paragraph where you say "Those who would do themselves in by eating junk-food will eventually do themselves in anyway. You save them once and the next time it will be during the night when no one knows they are having a heart attack. " It sounds to me like you are saying that if a person is eating an unhealthy diet, we should not try to save their life.
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I was just trying to indicate the futility of trying to save people who are hell-bent on destroying themselves. I had a neighbor, before I moved to The Villages, who suffered a heart attack and was in intensive care for 10 days. During those ten days he obviously couldn't smoke and he told me he didn't mind not smoking - he didn't miss it. So, as I talked to him in the yard, I noticed that he lit up a cigarette and I asked him why he started smoking again if he didn't miss not smoking in the hospital. He replied that he just liked smoking, so I dropped the subject. At that moment I knew he was going to get another heart attack before long and next time he might not be so lucky to be saved. Well, a short time later, probobly several weeks, he had another heart attack and died.
The first time he was helping out as a salesman in his brother-in-law's furniture store and people there called an ambulance. That's how his life was saved. He lived in back of the store and the second heart attack happened while he was home alone. He was semi-retired and his wife worked full time, so she wasn't there to call 911. He wasn't very far from people who could have saved him if they had known. If they had had an AED device in the store it wouldn't have done him any good. These devices, and the people who operate them, can't follow people around everywhere they go.
Only a person's good health-habits will follow them wherever they go. And that gets to the root of the problem. That's what I would prefer to focus on, rather than something that would likely give a false sense of security.
Of course I would try my best to save anyone if I could, but I just don't like this AED program because I believe it lulls people into a false sense of securiity.