The trial court correctly found that the hospital had "full knowledge of her suicidal tendencies" and, indeed, the admitting physician said that she seemed to be serious in threatening suicide when she should have the opportunity. Nine days after admission she caused her own death from suffocation by securing a plastic bag about her head. Where she obtained the bag was not shown. There was testimony that visitors brought food in such bags...
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