If you are very clear that you do not want toberesuscitated when you stop breathing, let the people where you live know what you want and put it in writing.
For doctors, the primary purpose of a discussion about terminal illness is to determine what people want whether they want chemo or not, whether they want toberesuscitated or not, whether they want hospice or not.
Despite the sacking of its headquarters in East Berlin and assurances that the organization would notberesuscitated until after the April elections, there is ample reason tobe suspicious of the actual status of the Stasi.