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Pain meds. When I get my Stage 4 comeuppance, I want pain meds. I might take some chemo options, as the options at Stage 4 can be less horrific than those for Stage 2. Stage 4 women can live for years. But - I won't tolerate any worse side effects than what I've already lived through. Beyond that, it's pain meds.
Antibiotics? Yes, if there's a fighting chance I'll rally from whatever infection is challenging me. If there's no chance I'll ever come off the ventilator, then let me go.
Surgery - I've been through multiple iterations of that shit. Sometimes it's lifesaving; but I'd never book an elective surgery again. Things can always go wrong, and it's not necessarily anybody's fault. Just the nature of the beast and our current microbiological environment.
CPR entirely depends on whether there's a great chance of coming back to pre-arrest function, which means: arrest in hospital with immediate code and CPR. An arrest out of hospital? Let me go. The chances of meaningful recovery are less than 5%, and that's optimistic.
Dialysis is the pits by all reports, but I can't say yea or nay, having never experienced it. After all, chemo is also the pits but I made it through and have most of my neurons intact. For me, the jury is out on dialysis.
My wooden nickel.
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi 
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