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This is well into paranoia territory. Anyone who is willing to either tail you until you have a medical episode or otherwise force the medical episode will have no trouble accessing your phone via more conventional means (kidnap + torture).
If you really want to protect against this "risk", either use a non-standard finger, or don't use biometrics at all.
And if you are likely to have a medical episode, either use your phones built in ICE (in case emergency) feature, wear one of those medical alert bands, or write the ICE numbers on your phone case.
in the US the police will not wait. if they want in they’ll claim you are hindering and arrest you for it. its innocuous and worse stuff like a traffic stop or a stop and frisk moment.