In the medical field, one of the biggest ethical dilemma family members must face is whether they want their family member to be resuscitated, since it may not have been what the patient wanted. The current norms around a do-not-resuscitate orders (DNR) are, that the patient’s family decide whether or not they want their family member to be resuscitated but at the end of the day (BMJ 104), it is the doctor that does the action of “pulling the plug”. When doctors are faced with this situation, their best resort is to think of virtue ethics and to resuscitate the patient if he will not suffer…