Is government going a little far in telling us what to do?
If the guy wants to commit suicide, let him.
Norwalk, Conn. (AP) - A man who cut off his penis in an
apparent suicide attempt was ordered by a judge to have it
reattached.
The ruling cam at the request of Norwalk Hospital, after the
42-year-old man refused the surgery for his self-influicted
injury.
Police said they received a call that said a man was running
along a street holding a towel to his bleeding groin. Officers
tracked the blood to a house and found a man inside.
He told authorities that someone had told him if he cut off
his penis he would bleed to death, police said. A parmedic
found the severed penis on the apartment floor.
Following the court ruling, the man was taken to Yale-New
Haven Hospital for surgery.
