It's not so much that you become jaded, but you realize after hearing the same arguments over and over, like you guys were hear, that the biggest problems are that teh two sides were not addressing the needs of the others. The grandaughter obviousley cares for teh grandmother or she would not of taken on the enourmous burden of caring for her. And I speak from personal experience with that. She probably thought that she was doing the right thing. "Let grandma go to Jesus." it's that what she said. Does that sound like an evil person? While you guys were trying to tell me Georgia law I was researching arotic dissections. The mortality rate for a woman of the grandmothers age is very, very high. Especially if there are other complications. That was what this young woman was hearing. Don't demonizer her for wanting to let her grandmother go. In her mind from teh information the doctors gave her. Her grandmother has a terminal condition in the grandaughters mind.
That brings me to the rest of the family. It is HIGHLY unusual for the family member who makes the medical decisions to not live in the same area as the person. I am going to hazzard a guess and say that they were problably not listed in the contact information the hospital had, or if the situation was critical, which at the moment of the dissection it would have been, where time was of the essence the hosptial will defer to the wishes of the family member that they have availble. Which is not against the law. Hospitals have that authority. All the regulations and codes that you have been so diligently posting only apply in emergency situations where the family is there.
Now afterwards, is a different story. Once the patient is stable in order for the other family members to assert thier rights they have to go to court and ask for them. Which is exactly what happened. and After readig the psot by the nephew, I would go back to my original premise that at some point before this incident the grandaughter had an ajudication in her favor or the nephew would not have said that he wanted her to turn legal authority over to him.
In America, we do NOT starve people who ask for food....at least in the America I used to know.
Stop confusing the issue with rationality.
Mortality may be high for this condition, yet her sister has the same thing and was home doing fine - until the shock of what was happening to her sister put her back in the hospital.
now to the second statement of yours about the grandmother being terminal "in the granddaughters [should be two d's] mind" - are you then, advocating that it's okay to kill someone as long as YOU THINK they're terminal? That's not a slippery slope, that's a free-fall
I hate false piety.
And yes, it can be.
Is there any Christian whose murder could not be equally-well justified on the basis that it merely "let the person go to Jesus"?
That's basically the same thing Senator Jim King said about Terri Schiavo.
If Jesus wants us, He has no problems taking us, WHEN HE WANTS TO.
Sick people think people should be killed so "they can go to Jesus." Ask Andrea Yates.
"Let grandma go to Jesus." it's that what she said. Does that sound like an evil person?
It sounds like someone who doesn't have a grasp of Scripture. My best friend is an ordained minister. She's also been a hospital chaplain for years. We spoke of these things 2 nights ago. She has seen families make hard decisions. We agree on matters of life.
"Let" and "allow" are not accurate terms in recent cases. Those terms imply the person is at deaths door or beyond it, as in terminally ill or brain death. But Mrs Gaddy was not addressing such a situation. There's a great difference between allowing the end and forcing the end. Apparently, Mrs Gaddy was trying to force her grandmother into Jesus arms and was trying to sugarcoat it. That statement won't fly with anyone who knows God. But it does sound good and WILL fool those who do not know any better. Some of todays churches are all about a "feel good" Jesus and they have nothing to do with the Truth.
The bottom line is Mrs Gaddy hasn't the right to usher Grandma into the Presence until it's her Grandmother's time. She didn't give her Grandmother life. She has no right to decide it's time to take it away.