Mark Miller pleaded for help.

Mark Miller never hid his intent to commit suicide.

Not when he entered West Central Georgia Regional Hospital in June 2002. "Threatening to hang self," a staff member at the state mental facility in Columbus scrawled in Miller's medical records.

Not when the hospital completed his psychological examination about two weeks later. A physician noted, "Client stated he did not feel like living."

And not when hospital workers discussed his treatment plan in the days before his scheduled discharge. Miller, a staff member wrote, "cannot offer a reason to live."

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