Posted on 04/07/2005 2:59:57 AM PDT by schmelvin
For Immediate release! To: All media, and supporters of life. From: The Family of Mae Magouirk Date: April 6, 2005 Contact: Kenneth Mullinax - Mockingbird@compuhelp.net
Shiavo case revisited in Georgia
Mae Magouirk…not comatose …not vegetative …not terminal
Why is Hospice LaGrange, Ga. withholding nourishment?
(LaGrange, Georgia) Mae Magouirk is being withheld nourishment and fluids and the provisions of her Living Will are not being honored at the Hospice-LaGrange, (1510 Vernon Street, LaGrange “Troup County” Georgia, 706-845-3905) a subsidiary of the LaGrange Hospital in LaGrange Georgia. Her family is desperately seeking to save her life before she dies of malnourishment and dehydration.
Mae Magouirk IS NOT comatose and she IS NOT vegetative. She is not terminal!
Despite these facts the Hospice and Beth Gaddy, a school teacher at LaGrange’s Calloway Middle School and granddaughter of Mae Magouirk have been denying her proactive nourishment or fluids (via a nose administered feeding tube or fluids via an IV) since March 28 without prior legal consent; against the wishes of her Living Will and against the wishes of Mae Magouirk’s closest living next of kin. Mae Magouirk’s next of kin are: Mr. A. B. McLeod (Her Brother) and Mrs. Lonnie Ruth Mullinax (Her sister) both of nearby Anniston, Alabama.
Under Georgia law, unless a medical durable power of attorney is in place, your closest living next of kin are stipulated to make all medical decisions. When Mae Magouirk’s closest living next of kin lodged a complaint with Hospice LaGrange’s in-house attorney Carol Todd last Thursday, March 31, Ms. Todd checked Mae Magouirk’s case file and upon examination of both documents discovered that Beth Gaddy DID NOT have the durable medical power of attorney for Mae Magouirk and upon closer examination of Mae Magouirk’s Living Will ascertained that fluids and nourishment were ONLY TO BE WITHHELD if she was either comatose or vegetative. SHE IS IN NEITHER STATE!!!
Nor is Mae Magouirk terminally ill. Her local LaGrange, Ga. cardiologist, Dr. James Brennan and Dr. Raed Aqel, a highly acclaimed interventional cardiologist at the nationally renowned University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center have determined that Mae Magouirk’s aortic dissection is contained and not presently life threatening.
Two weeks ago, Mae Magouirk’s aorta had a dissection and she was hospitalized in the LaGrange Hospital in LaGrange, Ga. Her aortic problem was at first determined to be severe and she was admitted in the intensive care Unit. Her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy, a teacher at the Calloway Middle School in LaGrange, stated that she held Mae Magouirk’s medical power of attorney and thus invoked said powers against the wishes of Mae Magouirk’s closest living next of kin by having her moved to Hospice-LaGrange. While at Hospice-LaGrange, Beth Gaddy stated that her wishes were for no nourishment for Mae Magouirk via a feeding tube or fluids via an IV. Before hospitalization Mae was lucid and never had been diagnosed with dementia as was testified to in Probate Court on Monday, April 4, by a local MD.
Page Two Mae Magouirk is being starved to death!
Upon learning from Hospice-LaGrange that Mae Magouirk was being denied nourishment and fluids and upon being told by Carol Todd (Hospice LaGrange’s in-house legal consul) that Beth Gaddy DID NOT HAVE THE PROPER LEGAL AUTHORITY to deny said nourishment AND that the denial of nourishment went against Mae Magouirk’s Living Will, Mae’s family (Mullinax/McLeod) ordered the immediate beginning of such nourishment/fluids for Mae to Hospice via Carol Todd.
First Contact with Hospice on Thursday, March 31 Carol Todd told Mrs. Lonnie Ruth Mullinax (Mae Magouirk’s sister) and Kenneth Mullinax (Mae Magouirk’s nephew) via phone on Thursday, March 31 that Georgia Law stipulated that Mrs. Mullinax and her brother A. B. McLeod (Mae Magouirk’s brother) were entitled to make any and all decisions for Mae Magouirk. Mrs. Mullinax immediately told Carol Todd to insert fluids via an IV and insert a feeding tube, via her nose. Carol Todd had the IV fluids started that evening but told the family that they would have to come to Hospice LaGrange to sign papers to have the feeding tube inserted and because of such, she believed that Mae Magouirk would no longer be a candidate for Hospice LaGrange. She was then told that Mae Magouirk’s family concurred and the ONLY REASON Mae was at Hospice was because the LaGrange Hospital had failed to exercise due diligence in closely examining the power of attorney which Beth Gaddy said she had, as well as executing the provisions of Mae’s Living Will to her preordained stipulations. Gaddy only had a financial power of attorney and did not have a medical power of attorney and Mae Magouirk’s Living Will provided that a feeding tube and fluids SHOULD ONLY BE DISSCONTINUED IF Mae was comatose or in a vegetative state. She was and is in neither state.
Attempt to rescue Mae on Friday denied by Probate Judge Donald Boyd On Friday, April 1, when A. B. McLeod (brother) and Kenneth Mullinax (nephew) showed up to meet with Carol Todd and to arrange emergency air transport of Mae Magouirk to the University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center (One of the top cardiovascular centers in the USA) Hospice LaGrange stalled them while Beth Gaddy went before Troup County Georgia (LaGrange, Ga.) Probate Judge Donald W. Boyd (who DOES NOT hold a law degree) who granted Beth Gaddy emergency guardianship of Mae Magouirk, giving Beth Gaddy full and absolute authority. Thus, they COULD NOT MOVE HER FOR PROACTIVE MEDICAL CARE Friday because Beth Gaddy had Hospice stop them and then she had Mae’s IV fluid tube pulled out. Beth Gaddy has repeatedly told Mr. McLeod, Mrs. Mullinax and Kenneth Mullinax that she feels they all should let Mae not eat and thus cause her to die because, and we quote Beth Gaddy: “Grandmamma is old and I think it is time she went home to Jesus. She has glaucoma, and now this heart problem and who would want to live with disabilities like these?”
As stipulated under Georgia Law, a hearing for an Emergency Guardianship, must be held within 3 days of its request and Mae Magouirk’s hearing was held on this past Monday, April 4, before Troup County Georgia Probate Judge Donald Boyd who favors granting Beth Gaddy permanent guardianship and thus will seal Mae Magouirk’s fate of allowing Beth Gaddy to starve her to death against the wishes of her Living Will and in full knowledge that Mae Magouirk is not terminal, not in a coma and is not in a vegetative state and that medical care at UAB Medical Center is awaiting her. Shiavo revisited!
Mae’s present state and vital signs Mae’s blood pressure is good, averaging 140/82 with a pulse rate of 88. However, since admission to Hospice she has not been lucid but who would be since nourishment and fluids have been denied since March 28, 2005. Also adding to her confusion is that she is off her regular medicines and is on a dose of Adavan and Morphine. Without food or water her electrolytes and body chemistry is not within its proper parameters. If her condition is not given major public attention soon, she will die, not by divine cause but by the omission of assistance by man. WE MUST GET Mae moved to UAB Medical ASAP
Resources: Probate Judge Donald Boyd…Court CASE NUMBER: Estate 138-05 Attorney for saving Mae’s life: Jack Kirby, Kirby & Roberts***
Has anyone watched Soylent Green recently? The praise of Soros reminds me of the end of the movie when the older man goes to 'die' (be killed). As he is put to death, he gets to listen to beautiful music and see beautiful nature scenes.
Does making the surroundings nicer, make killing better? If HOSPICE wants to keep their good name, they need to condemn the practice of admitting people to be starved and dehydrated to death.
don't be too sure this isn't happening here - I read somewhere not long ago about a delivery room nurse who left her profession because there were instances of handicapped babies just put in a delivery room closet to die...
There are people, who have the power of life and death over people, that loose their perspective - and slip into believing they have the right to decide who is better off dying - (think of all the "death nurses" that have put patients to sleep, forever, because they thought they were better off.
No one has the fight to make that decision for another human being.
"I tried my local radio host whom had argued for the death of Terry, he wouldn't take my call, go figure."
Go to his station web site and listen carefully to identify his SPONSORS, then tell them exactly how you feel!
Point out the latest Zogby polls are now showing....
Also, you may want to peruse this thread, LET’S KILL ALL THE OLD and Disabled PEOPLE, as well (I did post some links on there regarding costs/mortality rates/morphine usage, etc. re hospice).
Also, this thread Law changed by Hospice where terri is dying - More information (Unsourced), should be of some interest to you, as well. Calpernia and Fedora posted quite a few Soros links on it.
Eeevil,
Don't let the buzzards get you down. Your work here is having results, and is part of what has to happen. See, on FR,
It's not always, "Make a hole. Here comes a Marine."
It's, "Make a hole. Here comes Eeevil."
CB
And this is the Soros' Foundation?
Does making the surroundings nicer, make killing better? If HOSPICE wants to keep their good name, they need to condemn the practice of admitting people to be starved and dehydrated to death.
Still don't see the link between Soros PDIA and the "killing" in hospices. I have repeatedly said that states should reconsider their laws relating to guardianship of the termally ill taking into consideration living wills, technology, and distinguishing between life support and feeding mechanisms. But to fund efforts at comfort and help for terminally ill does not appear to me to be the devil's work.
SO DO YOU!!
LOL!
Thanks...
I am a learnin'!!
OH NO!
Thanx for the refresh. :)
Sometimes people who want to do evil, do some good stuff to hide the evil.
I have read so much about Soros that I don't trust him one bit.
Is this hospice in Georgia connected with the "global oneness", scientology deal that Felos is piddling in down in Florida?
Heck. By the time they starve someone for two weeks, it's no wonder they look pretty bad.
ditto
P.S.
Hitler was kind to children and dogs.
Does that give Hitler the license to have been responsible for killing an estimated 40 million people, including the disabled, holocaust and the wars??
See my point?
How is Soros funding the death industry?
He is funding hospices which are supposed to give loving care to
the terminal, and to get into most hospices the "terminal" label
means in imminent (weeks) confrontatioin with death.
Here, within a month, we find that doctors, donors, family members
are helping people to become terminal, fraudulently admitting them to hospices with the purpose of promoting death.
Soros' quotes elsewhere on this thread about his father's and mother's deaths are very telling. We have also learned that there are many doctors in the pro death movement. Take a patient with severe medical/mental problems, admit them to a hospice, cut the nutrition and hydration, and .....Voila! a terminal patient.
The meds and deprivation are obviously keeping Mae from being coherent. Looks like a huge blossoming court case to me.
Still---a huge donation to a "caring, sustaining" organization is chalked up for Soros.
He, Ted Turner and many celebrities and world luminaries belong to various world organizations that believe the planet's only hope of survival is to halve the population--or better. Ted Turner is on record as believing that 90,000,000 would be a good world population. How many billions would that eliminate?
vaudine
Well. I wonder what the granddaughter stands to inherit by having her grandmother starved? What is the judge gaining by this apparent travesty?
Sounds like the lady is hanging on for dear life as Terri did.
Sounds like the hospice itself aiding the granddaughter is a DANGER OF DEATH for Mae. The granddaughter seems like a DANGER OF DEATH for Mae.
This brother and sister of Mae threaten her with what? the DANGER OF LIFE?!
How lousy.
My husband's parents (both 81) said today that the granddaughter would find out one day that age is all relative.
Even if you put in a living will that you want to starve to death, it's suicide. Nourishment is not extraordinary means; it is ordinary means. Why is Dr. Kervorkian in jail?
Not only that, but you just might change your mind:
The Will to Live
When Marjorie Nighbert entered a nursing home after having a stroke, she did not expect to be starved to death, but that is what happened when she became a victim of her own "wishes."
Like many people, she did not want her life to be prolonged when death was imminent. So Nighbert created a durable power of attorney (DPA), in which she gave her brother control over medical decisions in case she could not make them for herself. And according to the family lawyer, Nighbert said she did not want a feeding tube if she became terminally ill.
When Nighbert fell ill the nursing home followed the orders of the DPA and denied her food and water for two weeks. But then something unexpected happened: She asked to be fed. A court battle ensued, and the court ultimately upheld the nursing home's decision to deny Nighbert food and water. According to the judge, Nighbert was not competent to ask for food, and to give her food would constitute "extraordinary means."
Nighbert died on April 6, 1995.
Excerpt from:
http://www.feministsforlife.org/taf/1995/winter/wiltoliv.htm
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Another item of good news from maine-iac7:
UPDATE! Mae's story on front page LaGrange paper:per:
Woman, 81, at center of feeding tube feud By Joel Martin Senior Writer LaGrange has its own feeding tube controversy, with family members at odds over medical care for an 81-year-old woman at Hospice LaGrange. Ora Mae Magouirk has been in hospice since March 22, suffering from what granddaughter Beth Gaddy described in court papers as dementia, an aortic aneurysm and a blood clot. Cont on link
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http://www.lagrangenews.com/
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