A man in perfectly good health has had 'do not resuscitate' tattooed on his chest after fearing he could come back "as a vegetable" if revived from a serious illness or injury. Nigel Thwaites, 52, got the £50 tattoos after he took part in a defibrillator course at the insurance company he works for and after seeing his father suffer from poor health. After doing the course he became aware that his quality of life could be very poor even if resuscitated following a heart attack or cardiac arrest. So he made the decision to have DNR tattooed on his chest along with his blood type on his right arm in the case that his body would be used for organ donation. He said: "I don't want to run the risk of not having a quality of life
Filmed on 10th October 2019