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Also called an advance directive, a living will sets forth your wishes regarding life-sustaining treatments, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation or tube feeding, if you are unable to make decisions on your own.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

She had been there when the resuscitation began, and she stayed.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

The boy, approximately six months old, was pronounced dead despite resuscitation efforts, the Hadassah Medical Centre said in a statement.

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

After Thomason’s friends freed him, they immediately started cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 6, 2026

What a marvelous cooperative arrangement—plants and animals each inhaling the other’s exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan