"doomed person" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to someone who is very likely to experience an unfortunate outcome because of a difficult situation. For example: "The passengers on the capsizing boat were all doomed persons who could not escape their tragedy."
What Oswald does is to give each doomed person an extra breath of life, a moment in the sunlight of her attention, even though, sometimes, there is little or nothing to record about the life.
In Transplant (and Fat Man), the doomed person is used to benefit the others.
Like an all-you-can-eat buffet, or an arcade game with endless free plays, the allure of endless free travel can become compulsive for the doomed person who says, as Emerson wrote, "anywhere but here".
Ghosh was a 50-year-old police officer from Kolkata, part of a doomed eight-person expedition — four climbers from the Indian state of West Bengal and four Sherpa guides from Nepal — that ran out of time and oxygen near the top of Everest.
Having the genes does not doom a person to cancer, it merely raises the odds.
Still, a genetic predisposition does not necessarily doom a person to bulging veins.
In choosing to cheat by stating that the virtual coin flip came up heads, people were saving themselves more than a half-hour of drudgery but, in so doing, unfairly dooming another person to it.
What makes somebody a "Loser," a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation?
Mackinnon is dreadful on a supernatural level, a damned person, doomed to roll forever, paddled along by his tongue and his sore ears.
"His presidency could be doomed," said this person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity so as not to alienate the president or his staff.
Miller's remarkably convincing insights into parent-child relationships easily make the reader feel doomed as a person and guilty as a parent, but recognizing that parent-child relationships are symptomatic of all our relationships can open up Miller's otherwise dead-end analysis.
