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Because I wasn't mentioning my own viewpoint, I was mentioning how the law might differ.
I did explain it explicitly, so I think the best way to explain it then is with an analogy/visualization.
Imagine an umbrella. The umbrella is labelled "issues of self-harm". Underneath the umbrella are all the things which can amount to or turn into it.
On the very edge underneath it is the issue of DNR. Where you live, the umbrella is nudged away from it. Where I live, the umbrella would just pass over it.
My own stance, which I have not mentioned until right now, is that, supposing someone has asked all the questions to themselves relating to their life, they should consult whoever has authority over the DNR or whatever it is.
The fact the very same important questions can be asked in the first place regarding both aspects of this issue (which you give the impression don't come off as related) shows they are related in the ways alluded to. The episode of Doc even explored this very thing. Hence I said that would not work out where I live. Hence I was asking, what kinds of legal culture shock have you picked up on in a TV show.
You aren't explaining "your environment" well. You are being way too vague and abstract on these concepts.
This doesn't make sense. Your "environment" not regarding a person's choice to forego certain medical treatment sounds more like a personal preference. It's hard to envision anywhere not understanding there are people that wish to discontinue medical treatment for whatever reason. Whether you personally agree with it or not is irrelevant to the overall environment. So the way you have approached that topic feels like it's your opinion rather than the overall culture of your "environment".
So can you elaborate on your "environment" and how it regards someone opting to not be resuscitated? If you want a specific, consider an elderly person with aggressive cancer along to be DNR?
Wait, really? All this hoopla over healthcare reform these days and there are people who say it shouldn't be a given? Not invalidating you, just surprised and trying to think of it all.
Culture, philosophy, law, whatever you want to call it. It's all intertwined. Every rule and every norm you live by. Imagine your part of the world. Imagine the borders, the ones where, if you step outside these borders, certain laws no longer apply. Your confusion seems to come from being adamant that it shouldn't be a legal issue, that it's a no-brainer. The law, sadly, does not care what should and shouldn't be a legal issue. My last downvoter be damned, because again, their words, not mine. Anyone thinking anything here is my personal preference is not only shooting the messenger but also overthinking this, which might explain if anyone doesn't understand it. I only have the power to let people know that, within my borders, there resides my own legal environment. A sphere with its own rules of thumb and its own ways of thinking and doing things.
The place I live in is very anti-eugenics. It's pro-life. It's pro-equality. It's very medically established despite its low population. One day in school, we were talking about how, in the United Kingdom, there was a scandal where the government was putting people on one of those lists without their permission. Every debate around life and death is a gateway to another. A bureaucratic mistake can mean the difference between choice and persecution. It is then those of us who observe all of this who think "at what point does a rational, well-informed decision on the matter become one that's not rational or well-informed". Would a person who requests DNR who is then reckless and suffers due to it not amount to a kind of self-destruction? Would the same person be considered "murdered" if someone kills them? If someone depends on them, would it be "murdering" those people if something happened? I redirected to at least ten of these kinds of questions.
It's not so much "abstract" as the whole topic is a blur to begin with, again hence the episode. In more ways than one, I'm just the messenger. I was really hoping the original question might be answered, not just being dedicated to questioning a small part of it. Should I just not elaborate on my questions?