Posted on 03/18/2008 4:15:56 PM PDT by wagglebee
WINNIPEG, Manitoba, March 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Samuel Golubchuk's children are continuing the fight to keep their father alive against the efforts of hospital doctors who are determined to starve and dehydrate him to death, regardless of the family's wishes.
In February, Justice Perry Schulman of the Manitoba Court of Queen's Bench granted a temporary injunction allowing Mr. Golubchuk to remain on life support until a trial could rule on the issue. The judge, in granting the injunction, said that there were sufficient grounds to doubt the hospital's analysis of the patient's condition.
On Friday March 14th, lawyers for the Golubchuk family and the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority were in court to try to establish a trial date.
Neil Kravetsky, lawyer for the Golubchuk family, said the case will not be heard until the end of the year at the earliest.
"We still haven't set a definitive date but it's looking like December," Mr. Kravetsky said in a Winnipeg Sun report.
Percy Golubchuk and Miriam Geller, 84-year-old Samuel's children, said they were relieved and happy knowing their father will remain on life support until the trial, which may not take place for another nine months.
Undeterred by the Manitoba College of Physicians' "Statement on Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment," which arrogated to its doctors the final say in matters of life and death, even when the family opposes the decision of the physician, Samuel's children have begun a vigorous campaign to disseminate information about their father's situation and ask for public support in their battle against euthanasia.
In an email sent to LifeSiteNews, Miriam Geller said, "Sam isn't on any medication and he is in no pain. He's just old and weak."
Miriam explained that in November of last year "the hospital, without our permission, attempted to withdraw his basic care, letting our father die. We obtained an emergency Court Order to stop them from doing so, which they tried - and failed - to have reversed. Now the government is forcing us to return to Court again as it fights, at taxpayers' expense, to have the Order overturned.
"That's right," Miriam continued, "the government is fighting for the right to kill our father. If it succeeds, it will have established the right to kill anyone it deems unworthy of living."
"Let me stress that Sam is not in a 'vegetative' state, nor is he suffering from a terminal illness of any kind. The government wants to end his life because he's old, he's weak and he's disabled and it doesn't want to spend money on his care - and it's using taxpayers' money to fund its legal crusade!" she declared.
To donate to the Samuel Golubchuk family, readers may visit the Save Samuel Golubchuk website:
http://www.samuelgolubchuk.com/donate.htm
To sign an online petition to save the life of Samuel Golubchuk:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-sam-golubchuk/sign....
To express your concern to the hospital in which Mr. Golubchuk staying:
The Salvation Army Grace Hospital
Ms. Gwen Greig
300 Booth Dr.
Winnipeg MB R3J 3M7
email: pr@ggh.mb.ca
Fax: 204-837-0545
Read previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Golubchuk Injunction Upheld - Winnipeg Hospital Ordered to Keep Patient on Life Support
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08021314.html
Action Call to Save Samuel Golubchuk
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/feb/08021108.html
Right to Decide When to End Treatment is Doctor's, not Family's: Physician's Guidelines
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jan/08013106.html
Which seems to be their goal.
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I would not count on that.
The gov't makes the decision on who lives or dies. It is their money (via your tax dollars) so they spend it the way they want, not the way you want.
Yup, good times ahead if we have a Democrat as the next president.
This is the kind of article that needs to be posted far and wide.
Meanwhile, a serial murder won’t get a date with the hangman no matter how many people he kills. Welcome to the upside down world of lieberalism!
And in this country private insurance companies deny treatment to customers with terminal diseases and force families to pull their loved ones off of life support.
Odd how the left likes to hand out death to those who deserve to live and life to those who deserve to die.
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Unbelievable. Apparently he’s not in any kind of coma, which would be bad enough. He’s just old and inconvenient.
He is what Hitler used to call a “useless eater.”
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