Two Decades to an American Culture of Death Lifetree.org html
Missoula Demonstration Project (which later became Life's End Institute) is founded in Missoula, Montana, by Ira Byock and Barbara Spring. Initial funding came from Nathan Cummings Foundation and Project on Death in America. In addition, Mayday provided $150,000 (1996-1999) for Missoula's "Pain as the Fifth Vital Sign" project, conducted by Linda Torma, MSN. In 1999, executive director Barbara Spring would be replaced by bioethicist Mark Hanson of the Hastings Center. Hanson would also become interim director of the Practical Ethics Center at Univ. of Montana (Promoting Excellence headquarters).
Sean Morrison- Project on Death in America Newsletter Fox frequent guest week of Terri Schindler death
Soros' first round of Open Society Institute and Project on Death in America Faculty Scholars include:Diane Meier, Judith C. Ahronheim, Jane Morris, Sean Morrison OSI Scholars at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in NY-Andrew Billings ( OSI Scholar, MGH/Harvard)-Wm. Breitbart (OSI Scholar, Memorial Sloan-Kettering/Cornell)-Nicholas Christakis (U.Chicago)-Stuart Farber (U. Wash.)-Carlos Gomez (U.Va.)-Sarah Goodlin (White River Junction, VT and Dartmouth)-Steven Miles (U.Minn.)-Thomas Smith (Va. Commonwealth)-James Tulsky (Duke)-Charles von Gunten (Northwestern)-David Weissman (Med. Coll. of Wisconsin)
Reflections On Death In America - Soros November 30, 1994
"In three years we will have a leader and role model in place in one-fourth of the countrys medical schools."
Project Summary: Development of faculty from all clinical departments to be palliative care consultants and role models.
Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
Sean Morrison - Fox News Interview
Dr. Sean Morrison, a professor of geriatric and internal medicine at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, said that while coma patients recover, patients in a persistent vegetative state do not.
He also said it was wrong to characterize Schiavo's death as starvation.
"What happens is she loses fluid from her body, she enters a peaceful coma and she gradually passes away, very gently and very peacefully," he said.
The Debate Over Terri Schiavo Congressman Dave Weldon-Dr. Sean Morrison - Partial Transcript O'Reilly Factor 3-21-05
Thank you! BTW I am reading a biography of Margaret Sanger right now looking for other background information that might provide clues; I will let you know if I find anything significant.