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Posted on 07/19/2011 12:33:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Colorado inmate has filed a lawsuit because prison guards revived him in contravention of his do-not-resuscitate orders.
Daniel Self claims he was wrongfully convicted in the shooting death of his pregnant girlfriend, and his life sentence is worse than death, the Denver Post reports. “Death would be welcome relief," he tells the newspaper.
(Excerpt) Read more at abajournal.com ...
Honestly, I think he’s right.
Simple solution. He is a murderer who wants to be dead and would be if his DNR had been honored. The court should “make him whole”, by ordering him to be immediately executed.
I like that idea. “You didn’t want to be revived? We can fix that...”
No problem.
Go up to a group of MS13 members shouting profanity laced, bigoted remarks, insult them, their heritage and their Madre....
He is an inmate, a prisoner, someone who has lost most of his civil rights for a crime he was convicted for. Why would the guards honor a DNR? It is not the prisoners who give the orders in prison...or at least, that shouldn’t be the case.
If they didn’t the family of the convict would have sued.
If he wants to stay dead, the state has no authority to drag him back to life.
Leave him ten feet of rope and a do it yourself noose instruction booklet.
My Dad had a DNR, but I learned in Kansas that DNRs do not apply to emergency personell, fire-fighters etc. They are only in hospitals.
Have the inmate agree to a DNR tatoo on his forehead. Although, I don't like the inmate trying to get out of serving his full term.
My father had a DNR, and was told by medical authorities to post it so it is visible to emergency personnel. He had ALS, and Mom posted it by recliner, where he slept. No one could miss it.
No, his civil rights were curtailed when he was convicted of murder and sentenced to prison. There was no voluntary giving up, they were taken by judicial ruling and judgment from his peers.
If he wants to stay dead, the state has no authority to drag him back to life.
So long as the state is responsible for the person, they act as his guardian. They tell him when to wake up, when to go to sleep, what to eat, and when to eat it. They also apparently told him he couldn't die yet. If he made an agreement with the prison to have a DNR and to honor that DNR (assuming that there's no attempted suicide involved here, which I'm hardly convinced..), that's between the two of them. The courts should have no say in the matter until he's released and the prison is no longer his guardian.
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