[littlepaddle]

yes

[Nephi]

Very interesting.

[lindasobers]

I live in NJ, where the infamous Charles Cullen is from. My brothers went to grade school with him and his sister was a classmate of mine. Where did he first get the idea that people do not want to "suffer" and that he was going to make it easier for them to die with dignity? How did he kill so many people, for so many years, and get away with it? Perhaps it was so common to see these people die from drug overdoses and lots of people in the medical field looked the other way. Charles Cullen is also accused of killing my friends dad. He went in the hospital and never came back out. Charles Cullen saw to that!

[Marauder]

Is there a way to make sure that somone who dies in a hospital is autopsied? Do we as citizens have right to demand it for a loved one?

[Robert Drobot]

Life/Death ping.

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[Canticle_of_Deborah]

We need no-kill human hospitals like no-kill animal shelters.

[donbosco74]

A most interesting read! And the website it comes from is informative as well. At the end of the web page the webmaster says something the post did not include:

"Christine said that the US Comgress should not only have subpoened Terri Schiavo as a witness, it should also have placed her in the Witness Protection Program."

If they had done that, it might have worked. The outcry would have been quite loud by all the pro-euthanasia front men. And the congressmen responsible would have been subject to career problems all of a sudden. Look at the backlash that is coming even from the limited action they did take.

[Dixielander]

"Please remember that the living will targets you for euthanasia by denying you medical treatment. Living wills kill; they do not protect you. Instead, I urge you to obtain a copy of “The Protective Medical Decisions Document” (PMDD) from the International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force, P.O. Box 756, Steubenville, Ohio 43952. Sign it and keep it among your records. Please get rid of your living will!"

Thanks for posting this most important article.

[cgk]

General Question to All: Is it common practice for an admitting nurse in an ER to ask if you have a Living Will? Or is that question designated to those of us who have chronic medical conditions, in my case, MS?

[ladyinred]

Ping a ling to the horror of modern medicine, "DO HARM" the new oath.

[ladyinred]

I have been trying to warn people about this for more years than I care to remember. It was during my Fathers illness and hospitalizations that I realized what was going on. If I hadn't been there almost day and night he would never have made it as long as he did. Finally, when I wasn't there early one morning, he did die, and they followed none of our instructions. The same thing happened to my grandmother 4 years later. A living will did no good, the power of attorney did not good. She was doing very well one day, and the next it was like a different person.

Frightening is hardly the word. The moment you enter the hospital with your parents or grandparent they are pushing you to "let Mom die with dignity. If it were my mom I would" etc.

This is murder, and it is happening everywhere! The family isn't always aware of it as they are programmed to trust the medical profession. DON'T . I have lost two of the people I loved most in the world to them.

[Chickensoup]

This happened to my father.