LONDON (Reuters) - An 85 year-old widow is so determined not to be resuscitated against her will by doctors that she has tattooed the words "Do Not Resuscitate" across her chest.



Frances Polack, a former nurse, said she paid $40 for a tattoo with the instruction and a heart with a 'no-go' sign in red and blue to ensure medical staff knew she did not want to be revived.


"Years ago when I was nursing I could see they resuscitated so many people they shouldn't have," Polack told the Nursing Standard magazine.


"I don't want to die twice. By resuscitating me, they would be bringing me back from the dead only for me to have to go through it again," Polack said.


The white-haired pensioner who lives in the New Forest in the south of England said she visited a local tattooist with a friend. "I don't know if I want to start a fashion, but I hope I will start a debate," she said.


Taken from Yahoo news:
http://story.news.yahoo.c..._tattoo_dc

That's so kew...and she has a point.
What's next? Arrows pointing to the organs that may be removed for transplantation after someone died?

Big up to the ole lady!! I don't blame her...lol.

She put Tattoo on her chest? Funny, I thought Herve Villachaize was dead...

June7 said:

I'll tattoo on my ass "The entrance is on the other side"

My grandma had a "Do Not Resuscitate" sticker on taped to her refrigerator, and also a little cartoon about not putting Humpty-Dumpty back together again. She was resuscitated once, after a heart attack, and didn't want to go through all that again. So, after her second heart attack, they didn't work on her for long, and she died.

At least it was what she wanted, and we kind of had to laugh when we found that in her house, because we had never seen it before.