Beware: Hospitals think "do not resuscitate" means you don't want to live

Hip-fracture surgery patients who opt for DNRs reduce their changes of surviving their hospital stay.  At Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, researches found that "morality was over two times greater" for patients with DNRs than those without them.

For the healthiest patients, the impact was even more extreme.  DNRs upped their risk of dying in the hospital from 3 percent to 17 percent.

DNRs are dangerous even if you are healthy.