I have had two deaths on board over the years. It happens, I have no emotional connection with the passengers and will use common sense and medical advice to guide my actions. Death is part of the human condition and if you carry millions of people by air each year, a few will have serious medical issues. So long as you have tried your best, your efforts should not be seen as a failure. As an observation from the charter market, passengers outside school holiday times are often old with complex health needs, so its amazing that there are not more people taken seriously ill. Listening to the symptoms collected for Medlink, it strikes me that some individuals should be nowhere near an aircraft and most unlikely to have insurance to cover medical needs.