I hope there is big litigation on this - I think the nephew aught to see to it - it's the only way these people will stop this - if they get hit and punished. Word will start to spread and that's how we get the foot in the door to get this to the public and stopped. The public is blind, deaf and dumb becasue they simply cannot beleive such evil could exist HERE in the US. And I'm sure, in the early 30's, neither did the German people - until it was too late.
Did I send you this new link yet? We all need to save this in our "cause/alert file" - It's a reprinted article from a 1949 edition of the New England Medical Journal - on this news/Activism thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1380989/posts?page=1
and here
http://www.haciendapub.com/article28.html
Chilling - we have a lot of work to do!
http://www.lutheransforlife.org/Life%20Issue%20Info/End-of-Life/ventilators_-_feeding_tubes.htm (snip)
When Minnesota policeman Sgt. David Mack was shot in the line of duty in 1979, Dr. Ronald Cranford diagnosed his patient as being in a "persistent vegetative state," never to regain "cognitive, sapient functioning." Dr. Cranford was ready to end his patient's life, but 20 months after the shooting, Sgt. Mack regained consciousness and nearly all of his mental ability.
Conley Holbrook was in a coma for eight years. On February 25, 1991 he woke up. Were eight years missing from his life? Apparently not because 26-year old Conley was able to call each of his relatives by name, including the small children who were born while he was unconscious. He knew what was happening around him, he just couldn't communicate.
This is what you are up against. Dr Cranford, Terri's 'doctor' who testified she was PVS.
http://www.bioethics.umn.edu/faculty/cranford_r.shtml (snip)
Professor of Neurology, University of Minnesota Medical School; Associate Physician, Department of Neurology, Hennepin County Medical Center
E-Mail: cranf001@umn.edu
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Ronald Cranford, MD, a neurologist and medical ethicist, is Assistant Chief in Neurology at the Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), Minneapolis, Minnesota; Professor of Neurology, University of Minnesota Medical School; and Faculty Associate, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota. He was Director of the Neurological Intensive Care Unit at the Hennepin County Medical Center from 1971 to 1991.
Dr. Cranford has specialized in the field of clinical ethics since the early 1970s. During this time, he served as a consultant to several national commissions on right-to-die issues. These included the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, primarily the reports on "Defining Death" and "Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment" and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws on the Uniform Determination of Death Act and the Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act. He was a member of the panel that formulated the Hastings Center's "Guidelines on Termination of Treatment and the Care of the Dying" and the project consultant to the National Center of State Courts' project on "Guidelines for State Court Decision Making in Authorizing or Withholding Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment." Recently, he was co-chairman of the Multisociety Task Force on Medical Aspects of the Persistent Vegetative State.