I recently attended a 'suspected death', and the gentleman was indeed very, terminally dead. He was found by his neighbours who will remember the shock, and how undignified his last moments of life and first 24 hours of death were. He was seen sprawled on the floor naked in rigor mortis by his neighbours, and a bunch of strangers - community responder (me), 3 paramedics, policeman, police surgeon, etc etc. His family had no chance at all to say goodbye - he had no medical history, no warning for them. I wish I had been able to do something that showed that we wanted to preserve his life, and that we had some respect for him, and something that would have given his family time to say goodbye. But maybe that is selfish - it was a very swift end, the kind most of us hope for. Maybe he would have been happy to trade a bit of dignity and shock for a very swift and conclusive end