http://lonestartimes.com/index.php?p=497
Here we go again…….
Lone Star Times, TX - 23 minutes ago
It’s happening RIGHT NOW in Georgia, except in a more egregious way. Mae Magouirk, an 81 year old grandmother, is not terminally ill, comotose or in a ...
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Thursday, April 7, 2005
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Granddaughter yanks grandma's feeding tube
81-year-old neither terminally ill, comatose, nor in vegetative state
Posted: April 7, 2005
7:33 p.m. Eastern
By Sarah Foster
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
In a situation recalling the recent death of Terri Schiavo in Florida, an 81-year-old widow, denied nourishment and fluids for nearly two weeks, is clinging to life in a hospice in LaGrange, Ga., while her immediate family fights desperately to save her life before she dies of starvation and dehydration.
Mae Magouirk was neither terminally ill, comatose nor in a "vegetative state," when Hospice-LaGrange accepted her as a patient about two weeks ago upon the request of her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy, 36, an elementary school teacher.
Also upon Gaddy's request and without prior legal authority, since March 28 Hospice-LaGrange has denied Magouirk normal nourishment or fluids via a feeding tube through her nose or fluids via an IV. She has been kept sedated with morphine and ativan, a powerful tranquillizer.
Her nephew, Ken Mullinax, told WorldNetDaily that although Magouirk is given morphine and ativan, she has not received any medication to keep her eyes lubricated during her forced dehydration.
"They haven't given her anything like that for two weeks," said Mullinax. "She can't produce tears."
The dehydration is being done in defiance of Magouirk's specific wishes, which she set down in a "living will," and without agreement of her closest living next-of-kin, two siblings and a nephew: A. Byron McLeod, 64, of Anniston, Ga.; Ruth Mullinax, 74, of Birmingham, Ala.; and Ruth Mullinax's son, Ken Mullinax.
Magouirk's husband and only child, a son, are both deceased.
In her living will, Magouirk stated that fluids and nourishment were to be withheld only if she were either comatose or "vegetative," and she is neither. Nor is she terminally ill, which is generally a requirement for admission to a hospice.
Magouirk lives alone in LaGrange, though because of glaucoma she relied on her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy, to bring her food and do errands.
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FAX WRITTEN REPORT Or any info TO: (404) 657-5737
GA Dept of Human Resources
REPORT ABUSE:
(404) 657-9639
List of GA HOUSE OF REPS!
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/house/05alpha.htm
http://www.notdeadyet.org/
This is one disability rights group that was involved with Terri
news media Namesphone numbers, e-mail addresses, for Georgia?
Her you go: all the papers in GA
http://www.gapress.org/online_edition_links.html
and the LaGrange paper:
http://www.lagrangenews.com/
editor, andrea Lovejoy
Fantastic!
This has caught fire - hopefully in time to save Mae - but, either way, this 'death-by-fiat' has got to be exposed to the light - BRIGHT light.
It's the only way to defeat darkness - and it always trumps the dark. Dark has no source of it's own, and can only exist where there is no light.
So get your flashlights search lights out, folks, and stock up on batteries
I'm working on setting up contacts through my parents and inlaws to pass on information and articles so they can contact their local papers.
My parents live in Smoky Mountains of NC, and lots of folks in states below NC have homes in the mountains they go to in the summer. There is a rather large retirement contingent that flows in and out through out the year. Information they receive would also be taken back to their home states.
My inlaws live in Myrtle Beach, SC. While it contains a fairly transient population, and that could help in someways as stated above, once again there are quite a few retirement home destinations in the area.
I know this may not be as hot button as calling the principle characters,but that seems to be covered and getting the story out shines the light on the dark corners.
My mom has a large circle of retired friends who are very agitated and scared by what they are learning through the news and what I pass on from here. Frankly, they are quite angry also. So, there is a resource pool that hasn't been tapped yet. They all have various disabilities that result in limited mobility, however, they know how to use a phone. :-D