Suicide Woman Uses Do Not Resuscitate
October 1, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Death
Who is right?
A woman tries to commit suicide. She’s rushed to the hospital but she’s conscious still and hands the doctors a living will that stipulates that she doesn’t want to be treated, just kept comfortable as she dies.
The doctors respect her living will and don’t treat her. They feel that if they do treat her, she could come back after them later and accuse them of assault, since she specifically refused treatment. She dies.
Her family is angry, accuses the doctors of allowing the woman to die (which they did). They say, they had not choice because she told them …read more
