An AF member does what no one else did

[abaris]

I agree with you, that was just my irrational me speaking, I don't think I'd be much better myself in a situation like that :/

I wouldn't be much good these days either, since time has moved on and so have the required skills. A reanimation process is very much different than it was some 20 years ago. Far as I know, you only do heart massage these days whereas in my days it was 5 to 1. 5 pumps of massage, 1 pump of oxygen.

The big deal about helping someone is that you have to violate the person in order to help them. If you are doing heart massage, be ready for their ribs breaking under the pressure. It's all about the lesser evil. You have to jump over your shadow and be ready for feeling one or two ribs popping when trying to reanimate them. Nothing you can do about that, so when training as a medic, this is drilled into you.

On a lighter note, this is probably less dangerous here in Europe, since we don't have this culture of lawsuits over good intentions.