"You know, they are describing Robert as minimally conscious. What the public needs to know is that there really is no such thing. That is a term that was made up by Dr. Cranford and some of his colleagues in order to move the line over where you can start killing people like Robert.< "
FYI
The minimally conscious state
Definition and diagnostic criteria
http://www.neurology.org/cgi/content/full/58/3/349
"In 2002, a panel of experts established a new diagnosis on the basis of exactly these reactions: the minimally conscious state. "It took years to get some agreement on the definition, and it's only now getting some acceptance," said Dr. Nancy Childs, at Texas NeuroRehab Center in Austin, "but we've known for years that there was this other group."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/05/health/05coma.html?position=&adxnnl=1&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1112818573-ACkXzPB1KwKvIgU7m3dM1g
Cranford responds to an article in NRO
http://pekinprattles.blogspot.com/2005/03/schiavo-dr-cranford-offers-reply.html
Dr. Cranford's Complete Terri Schiavo Report
http://pekinprattles.blogspot.com/2005/03/dr-cranfords-complete-terri-schiavo.html
http://www.med.cornell.edu/news/press/2003/03_31_03.html
got 'em saved in my "hospice" file..
Do we have a Hospice" watch group? My feeling is that this is the 'attack" point - if we approach this from a religious angle - (which it is, but won't get as many converts as sticking with the "this can happen to you" angle - and the fact that the Hospices have become the deathCrats avenue of practicing their trade. (I think also that there are many nurses working in Hospice - like the ones that tried to help Terri - that are horrified at what they see going on - and some will come forward with case histories.This is not the reason they became nurses.)
Everyone, if we're lucky, is going to get old and we all think about the day when it's time to pass over. So everyone has a "dog in this fight."
We need to keep these 3 cases that have already been widely publicized - Terri, Wendland and Mae (and gives us plenty of documentation from Florida, Calif and GA).
We need to get some stories from families on other cases - I'm sure there are hundreds+ - and alert the sleeping public to the very real danger coming their way.
Maybe (?) a good place to start would be with our pastors - as they have the duty of visiting the sick and dying - and they would be good avenue for a start. (I doubt many of them agree to "the solution" being meted out to the ill.)
Father Pavone, the national director of the pro-life group Priests for Life , has a network with speakers all over the world, and a mission from the POPE. (Father's web site:
http://www.priestsforlife.org/
(I am not Catholic, but as we have seen, this fight crosses all barriers of religion, politics and race. It is OUR fight - an "Everyone of US" fight.)
As we get names and cases, we can branch out with families testimonies so that our movement doesn't get labeled as one of 'religious fanatics" which the deathCrats would do. That is their modus operandi, ala Communist operational points - denigrate and slander and thereby dilute.
Do we have a "Terri is Us" or some such drive separate from the church angle?
Also, a chart connecting the dots - for ex: Dr Death - ah, Cranford - of his involvement in the Wendland case in Calif and with Terri - and his associations and own words would get a lot of people educated...we would h ave to be VERY sure we put down only the facts - for they'll come out swinging, probably with Felos leading the pack (he can be diluted quickly by simply quoting from his own writings)...- but the truth is chilling and damning enough!