Posted on 04/07/2005 6:15:38 AM PDT by tacomonkey2002
Step by step goes the march of Death.
Can't say I didn't see it coming.
I was harassed for weeks for pointing out this obvious continuation of allowing Terri Schiavo to be murdered. Looks like it's open season on the helpless.
Coming? These decisions are made every day all across the land and have been for years.
This post leaves several unanswered questions. How old is this lady and if she was conscious how did someone else get this alleged PoA? Morphine will make someone incoherent.
Who but a court can make these decisions legally? How can that be changed?
And I have been harassed for weeks for pointing out that there are thousands of these cases at any given time across the land and that there was nothing medically unusual in the Schiavo case. Just the legal fight around it.
How can these decisions be made by anyone but families or courts when there is a dispute.
I don't see an age for this sick woman. But it looks like a granddaughter has the control....Using my daughter as a base, I'd say the sick lady is in her 80's.
You did just fine.
It is clear that our laws need to be reviewed and revised.
As GWB said, the default choice needs to be life. I also think the decision about who gets to be the guardian needs to be looked at.
pinging...
pinging you also...
"...if she was conscious how did someone else get this alleged PoA"
Since when do you only grant a POA by being unconscious? My grandmother granted my mother POA several years before her death (back in the '80s) and she was lucid till the last couple months of her life (strange accident, we'll never really know).
Of course, it's all moot if as the OP claims, this woman didn't really have POA.
I think these things have been happening for a long time. The Schiavo case just brought it into public view. Maybe now there will be more public outcry in favor of other people in the same predicament.
"... pointing out that there are thousands of these cases at any given time across the land and that there was nothing medically unusual in the Schiavo case. Just the legal fight around it."
Well that's true, and who disputes that? The problem w/the Schindler case was believing a "guardian" on hearsay evidence several years after the fact, who himself was having questionable relations violating marriage covenants. Judgement was bad - or rather not used in that case which led to this whole tragedy.
Never mind the final bad judgement which allowed long, slow starvation.
Of course it is common and almost always, if not always, unavoidable. There only result of this absurd and gruesome spectacle will be to further empower the fedgov should it step in and order federal court review of such cases further bankrupting the medical establishment while INCREASING the power of those judges so widely loathed.
Think Ninth Circuit deciding these matters.
And that is the MOST positive potential result.
Quick, get a video camera. Apparently, if we actually saw what this "treatment" does to a person, there would not be any more of this starvation and dehydration.
Nonsense. Nothing can stop most of it. These issues were never even seriously thought about as long as private resources were required to maintain the patient. Only after the pockets of the taxpayer became available or free money from the insurance companies were the enormous costs of prolonging the deaths acceptable.
When heresay evidence is also the "best available evidence" it will prevail. Nothing exceptional there. Extraneous issues are irrelevant.
These judges are out of control! My goodness, that granddaughter does not understand! Lord, please help us put an end to this culture of death!
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Thanks so much for posting this, it is a better update than what I have previously seen.
Topher, I know Fr. Pavone is extremely busy, but do you think you could pass word of this on to him? We must gain the attention of the world that this is an ongoing travesty of justice, this culture of death. Thank you. I know you will try.
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