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“Having a disability shouldn't be a death sentence when treatable medical complications arise,” said Independence Law Center Chief Counsel Randall L. Wenger, one of the allied attorneys.

Yet that is precisely what Zero and his death panels will make it if they have the chance.

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[Politicalmom]

Gee. You wouldn’t think people who wanted their ward to die would be allowed to be “guardians”.

[trisham]

This is the decision of his guardians? They’re really his worst enemies. How despicable, and how this poor man must feel knowing what they tried to do.

[Saundra Duffy]

Thank God for this ruling. Thank God. I will never forget Terri Schiavo. Never!

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

“No one should be allowed to decide that a person’s life is not worth saving just because he or she has a disability or medical condition.”

Tell that to President Obortion.

[LaineyDee]

Hockenberry’s guardians unsuccessfully attempted to deny him temporary life-preserving medical treatment for pneumonia.

The guardians should be stripped of their POA.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Is the state going to start paying the medical bills? or are they going to force the guardians to continue to pay under threat of arrest?

[starlifter]

Who are these people? I cannot in my wildest imagination come up with a reason why they would want to kill him.

My instincts tell me to follow the money...

[casuist]

It’s really sad that this had to be decided by a court. What sort of care-givers want to deliver death instead of care? Or take it upon themselves to make that decision?

[Mister Da]

There is a very special place in hell ....

[SatinDoll]

WOW!

What is left unsaid about caring for the mentally incompetent or disabled is how damnably bankrupting and life-draining it is for the guardian(s), as the necessity for acute care drags on for decade after decade.

The majority of families cannot afford that kind of care and cannot stop working to support themselves or other members of the family to concentrate on just one non-productive member.

Criticizing people who are in this position, accusing them of selfishness for NOT sacrificing their lives to the care of a disabled family member is grossly unfair.

I do want to add that this young man doesn’t appear to be dying from a terminal disease and wanting to withhold treatment for pneumonia was very cruel.

[HangnJudge]

The case here was that the custodians had no legal right
to withhold treatment without the client's consent,
once care was initiated

The Doctors hands were bound to
rules of best medical practice as
the patient could not speak for himself, and
there is no Adult Competent Spouse, Child, Parent, Sibling, (In that order)
or Court appointed Power of Attorney to speak for him

The Custodians were requesting
pre-established restraint of care,
when they were not any one of those categories
As best I can tell

[Gene Eric]

Sad. And they’re called guardians. I’ll call them bastards.

[murphE]

Too late for Terri.

[jwalsh07]

Hockenberry’s guardians unsuccessfully attempted to deny him temporary life-preserving medical treatment for pneumonia.

Lovely.

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[tuckrdout]

Wow, an island of sanity....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks wagglebee.

• Sterilize the Unfit Says British Professor [Professor David Marsland, a sociologist and health expert]

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