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Car boot woman may be brain damaged
The Age ^ | February 18, 2005

Posted on 02/18/2005 1:43:51 AM PST by BykrBayb

Car boot woman may be brain damaged

February 18, 2005 - 8:09PM

The condition of Melbourne woman Maria Korp, found near death in the boot of a car, has improved but she remains on life support.

Doctors said Mrs Korp was now in a serious but stable condition five days after being found unconscious and in a critical condition.

The 50-year-old Mickleham mother of two was found in the car near Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrance on Sunday, four days after she was reported missing.

A spokesman for The Alfred hospital said Mrs Korp had been taken off the critical list but she remained on life support in a medically-induced coma.

Doctors have said Mrs Korp is brain damaged and will not be able to give evidence against her attackers.

Mrs Korp's husband, Joseph Korp, 47, and his former mistress Tania Herman, 38, appeared briefly in Melbourne Magistrates Court on Thursday charged with her attempted murder.

They have also been charged with conspiracy to murder and intentionally causing serious injury.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: braindamage; coma; euthanasia; mercykilling; righttodie; righttolife; righttolive; terrischiavo
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If this this happened in Florida, the court would appoint her husband as her guardian, and begin precedings to have her starved and dehydrated to death. But only after he found somebody to sue for millions of dollars.
1 posted on 02/18/2005 1:43:51 AM PST by BykrBayb
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Thankfully the police here suspected the husband (ex - supposedly reconciled) right away. They re-inforced a previous restraining order on him so that he couldn't even visit her in hospital. As it turns out they had great foresight and he and his mistress have now been detained on attempted murder charges. No doubt given the chance he would have turned off her life support.


2 posted on 02/18/2005 1:49:21 AM PST by Blue Eyed Aussie (An elephant never forgets ;-))
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Thankfully the police here suspected the husband (ex - supposedly reconciled) right away.

In any murder case, the spouse or family member is usually the first one authorities deduce as the murderer.

3 posted on 02/18/2005 1:57:50 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Smoke free since January 16, 2005)
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To: Blue Eyed Aussie

How's your court system there? Any risk of a court ordered euthanasia? Depending on her level of brain damage, she might need extensive therapy, and still might never recover. Here in the States, there's a movement well under way to exterminate people with severe cognitive disabilities.


4 posted on 02/18/2005 1:58:43 AM PST by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

Congratulations on your tagline!


5 posted on 02/18/2005 2:00:59 AM PST by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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Thank ya. Hard to believe it's already been a month. Before I kicked the habit, I figured time would come to a crawl. LOL


6 posted on 02/18/2005 2:06:09 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Smoke free since January 16, 2005)
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To: BykrBayb

At present the victim is in a medically induced coma and on life support. She was strangled with a belt and is rumoured to have brain damage. She has a 19 (from memory) year old daughter and 11 yr old son. Since the husband was under a restraining order he is not even allowed into the hospital. There has been nothing in the courts so far to indicate if she has any other next of kin. I would find it HIGHLY unlikely that the Australian courts would approve any form of euthanasia. It is still illegal, at least in this state.


7 posted on 02/18/2005 2:26:04 AM PST by Blue Eyed Aussie (An elephant never forgets ;-))
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To: Blue Eyed Aussie

It's illegal in Florida too, but have you heard what they're doing to Terri Schiavo?


8 posted on 02/18/2005 2:27:51 AM PST by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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To: Blue Eyed Aussie

Maybe another reason to go Down Under??


9 posted on 02/18/2005 2:29:00 AM PST by ElephantinTexas (Republican ladies are the fairest of them all!)
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To: ElephantinTexas

Maybe!!!!


10 posted on 02/18/2005 2:30:30 AM PST by Blue Eyed Aussie (An elephant never forgets ;-))
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To: BykrBayb

The authorities have been very leary so far in disclosing the full extent of her condition. It is very possible that the family may decide to turn off her life support, however I don't think the courts here have any jurisdiction in that regard. I just pray that her two children are not forced to make that decision. Hopefully she has other living relatives, although there has been no mention of any :-(.


11 posted on 02/18/2005 2:35:57 AM PST by Blue Eyed Aussie (An elephant never forgets ;-))
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I do remember reading about Terri Schiavo some time ago but sadly I had lost touch with the case. To my knowledge the court system here has absolutely NO jurisdiction to authorise ANY form of euthanasia. And so say all of us!


12 posted on 02/18/2005 2:40:41 AM PST by Blue Eyed Aussie (An elephant never forgets ;-))
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Very little risk of euthanasia, but they will terminate life support if they decide she is brain dead as opposed to merely severely brain damaged. But brain death is required.

There is really no possibility of euthanasia in the near future. One Australian territory did legalise euthanasia for a time, but the Federal Parliament intervened to make it illegal again.

13 posted on 02/18/2005 2:40:53 AM PST by naturalman1975 (Sure, give peace a chance - but si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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It is very possible that the family may decide to turn off her life support, however I don't think the courts here have any jurisdiction in that regard.

I take it euthanasia has become acceptable there. That's a shame. I can't imagine killing someone just because they're disabled.

14 posted on 02/18/2005 2:41:12 AM PST by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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Ah, thanks for clearing that up. It's become fairly common here to remove life support from brain damaged patients. Quite often, those responsible claim the patient was brain dead, when they're not. Some in the media are still claiming Terri Schiavo is brain dead, even though there are videos of her interacting with people.


15 posted on 02/18/2005 2:44:39 AM PST by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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Here, if a person is being kept alive on life support and clinically 'brain dead', the family have the option of having the life support turned off. Of course this does not necessarily result in death, so euthansia is an incorrect term on my part. There is no way that the courts will iterfere in this case regardless of the circumstances surrounding the victim's condition.


16 posted on 02/18/2005 2:47:43 AM PST by Blue Eyed Aussie (An elephant never forgets ;-))
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Terri's estranged husband is planning to have her feeding tube removed as early as this Tuesday. The woman is aware, and she interacts with people.


17 posted on 02/18/2005 2:48:19 AM PST by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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That's incredibly sad. God bless her.


18 posted on 02/18/2005 2:49:32 AM PST by Blue Eyed Aussie (An elephant never forgets ;-))
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Terri's not on any life support. Her estranged husband is planning to have her feeding tube removed, resulting in her death by starvation and dehydration. The judge ordered that she's not allowed to have any food, even spoon feeding.


19 posted on 02/18/2005 2:50:36 AM PST by BykrBayb (5 minutes of prayer for Terri, every day at 11 am EDT, until she's safe. http://www.terrisfight.org)
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"I take it euthanasia has become acceptable there. That's a shame. I can't imagine killing someone just because they're disabled."

Not at all...euthanasia is still illegal here. However turning off life support does not necessarily result in death. Therein lies a whole other topic....


20 posted on 02/18/2005 2:51:13 AM PST by Blue Eyed Aussie (An elephant never forgets ;-))
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