Monday, January 8, 2007

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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