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His son is alive because hos father defended him. This is a case where extreme measures worked. You had better be right, if you take this sort of step.
1 posted on 12/23/2015 6:56:19 AM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

“hos” should be “his”


2 posted on 12/23/2015 6:57:08 AM PST by marktwain
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Could anyone here say that they couldn’t do something like this for one of their children?


3 posted on 12/23/2015 6:59:12 AM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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When the government decides who is worth saving, are they just going to see the beautiful set of organs?


4 posted on 12/23/2015 7:00:27 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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This reminds me of the scene from A Bridge Too Far- where the Sergeant holds a gun on the doctor until he treats his Lieutenant- then after it’s all over, the Doctor puts him under arrest until the count of 10...1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10.


5 posted on 12/23/2015 7:05:25 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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I’ll just cut and paste my comment from yesterday’s thread:

No sympathy for mean drunks. Particularly big, mean drunks.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3375658/posts?page=5#5


7 posted on 12/23/2015 7:07:51 AM PST by PAR35
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Not sure about this. The accusation the father made about the medical staff “moving too fast” is belied by the fact that the boy was on life support in the hospital for an ENTIRE YEAR, since January 2015.


9 posted on 12/23/2015 7:08:02 AM PST by 4Runner
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To: marktwain

Sadly, the plug will get pulled when the insurance company stops paying the bills.


12 posted on 12/23/2015 7:20:44 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: marktwain

An earlier posted article (iirc Daily Mail) also said he ‘marched’ into the hospital. Did he actually ‘march’ or are these journalists getting their dramatic effect lessons from the same place?


15 posted on 12/23/2015 7:31:33 AM PST by posterchild
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If the father is so convinced the son is still able to live then taking off life support should not make a difference. Either he is alive through artificial means or he is not. The father is wrong here. Take off the machines and if he can still breath and has brain activity then he is fine. If not, then he is really dead but kept alive by machines.


16 posted on 12/23/2015 7:34:19 AM PST by napscoordinator
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You should read the version of the story from the day before.

http://fox8.com/2015/12/21/father-breaks-law-to-buy-time-with-brain-dead-son-then-something-unbelievable-happens/

The MSM agenda should now be clear. Fox8 should be shut down.


18 posted on 12/23/2015 7:36:43 AM PST by Revel
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Excuse me. I mean fox13 should be shut down.


20 posted on 12/23/2015 7:37:37 AM PST by Revel
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They were in a hurry to pull the plug because the child was an organ donor. They need to get those organs from living people, because once you die, the organs are unusable. So they can only get them from situations where someone is still alive, but comatose/unresponsive.

If he hadn’t been an organ donor, I have no doubt they would have been happy to keep him on life support for as long as the insurance would pay for it.


23 posted on 12/23/2015 7:44:54 AM PST by Boogieman
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Yeah, so?

If someone came into your home and was about to murder one of your family, wouldn’t most people at least threaten to shoot the perp, if not actually gun them down?

Nothing to see here except a technical violation of the CHL law. Glad he was released...wish that I was on the jury when this comes up for trial, but I’m no where near Houston.


27 posted on 12/23/2015 7:48:54 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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I was an organ donor for decades. I changed that in the last decade due to the propensity of hospitals to make decisions based on organ harvesting.


31 posted on 12/23/2015 8:06:41 AM PST by ExpatGator (I hate Illinois Nazis!)
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from a follow-up article

Amazingly, his son recovered from the stroke and is fine today.
"There was a law broken, but it was broken for all the right reasons. I'm here now because of it," said Pickering's son, George III.



34 posted on 12/23/2015 8:39:41 AM PST by stylin19a
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