While looking at the court documents I noticed that Jim Thornton was appointed as attorney to represent the ward. So, it looks like Mae did have legal representation.
Another interesting thing:
There are 9 items that can be circled to describe the ward's incapacitation.
Beth Gabby circled these 4:
* Mental Disability
* Advanced Age
* Physical Illness or Disability
* Other: Aortic Aneurism; blood clot (written in, and spelled as it was in the document)
Gabby also declared in a seperate section that Mae suffered from dementia.
The siblings (A. B. McLeod and Lonnie Ruth McLeod Mullinax only circled one item:
* Physical Illness or Disability
[On this form there were only 8 options. Advanced age was not listed for some reason.]
Mae's living will is also included in the document and clearly states that nutrition is only to be withheld if she is comatose or PVS. There were 3 options for her to select: terminal illness, comatose, and PVS. She only selected comatose and PVS. SHE DID NOT SELECT THE TERMINAL ILLNESS OPTION. So, Beth would be going against Mae's living will if she tried to withhold nutrition from Mae on grounds of terminal illness.
Cunning. She selected comatose and PVS because she knew that in a hospice that would be end of her grandmother. From the moment of admittance the race was on. Would the little old lady die before she was evaluated by the doctors? Would lack of treatment and doses of morphine do the trick in a matter of days? And if she's going to die, why bother with eye-drops?
No wonder Kenneth took her out of there, he didn't have a moment to waste.
"While looking at the court documents I noticed"
Did you notice she was in a Hospice and shouldn't be moved upon her doctors advice?