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Granddaughter yanks grandma's feeding tube
WorldNetDaily.com ^ | April 7, 2005 | Sarah Foster

Posted on 04/07/2005 5:34:06 PM PDT by News Hunter

Edited on 04/07/2005 5:39:05 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

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Bump for #156

Must Read.

161 posted on 04/07/2005 8:48:12 PM PDT by Siobhan († Theresa Marie Schindler, Martyr for the Gospel of Life, pray for us. †)
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To: editor-surveyor

Free Republic does not have enough bandwidth for multiple threads on every disabled person who will be targeted now that the Felos Gambit has succeeded. Disabled people, watch your back. Healthy people, stay healthy!


First comes the sprinkles, then the deluge.


162 posted on 04/07/2005 8:50:27 PM PDT by Petronski (I thank God Almighty for a most remarkable blessing: John Paul the Great.)
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To: Viking2002
I think the moral and cultural importance of this deserves multiple threads, IMO.

I agree.

163 posted on 04/07/2005 8:54:35 PM PDT by Fiat volvntas tva (I believe in order that I may understand. (St. Augustine))
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To: Petronski
First comes the sprinkles, then the deluge.

Indeed.

The last time we went down this road, a great flood was needed the world over just to give us a hope of starting again on the right foot...

164 posted on 04/07/2005 9:00:06 PM PDT by Siobhan († Theresa Marie Schindler, Martyr for the Gospel of Life, pray for us. †)
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To: editor-surveyor
Ensuring this thread is seen
165 posted on 04/07/2005 9:08:23 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1379537/posts?page=156#156


166 posted on 04/07/2005 9:12:45 PM PDT by Coleus (God Bless our beloved Pope John Paul II, May he Rest in Peace)
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To: Calpernia

NewsMax and WND are both fine news sites. You might have noticed that most of the people who knock them somehow don't post a list of the 10 biggest stories they've been wrong on - or the 5 biggest - or even 1 big story error. Do they have memory problems? /sarc


167 posted on 04/07/2005 9:12:55 PM PDT by 185JHP ( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
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To: Calpernia

Thanx for posting links to help with coordinating the reading. PLease don't fail to ping me ...


168 posted on 04/07/2005 9:19:48 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: zip

ping


169 posted on 04/07/2005 9:20:06 PM PDT by Mrs Zip
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1379537/posts?page=156#156
170 posted on 04/07/2005 9:25:58 PM PDT by Siobhan († Theresa Marie Schindler, Martyr for the Gospel of Life, pray for us. †)
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Save Mae Magouirk from Forced Euthanasia Ping!!!

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171 posted on 04/07/2005 9:38:01 PM PDT by Wneighbor
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It's late, sorry, messed that one up.


172 posted on 04/07/2005 9:38:40 PM PDT by Wneighbor
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Save Mae Magouirk from Forced Euthanasia Ping!!!

If you’d like to be added or deleted from this Ping List please freepmail me.

173 posted on 04/07/2005 9:39:15 PM PDT by Wneighbor
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To: News Hunter; Northern Yankee; Victoria Delsoul
"She can't produce tears."

Reading this makes me want to produce them for her.

174 posted on 04/07/2005 9:41:57 PM PDT by kstewskis ("Tolerance is what happens when one loses their principles"....Fr. A Saenz.)
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To: Fiat volvntas tva

Well all of us are terminal - so they are within their rights I guess.

What absolute horror. Murder and none are prosecuted because the family either wants the estate or does not want to pay the fees - just get rid of grandma.

No wonder so many supported Michael - they are just as much a ghoul as he is.


175 posted on 04/07/2005 9:42:13 PM PDT by ClancyJ (The Death Culture Movement - All of us are hosed no matter what we do)
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To: News Hunter
Is anyone surprised? Here is the agenda on display for all to see.

Holy God, Holy Mighty One, Holy Immortal One, Have Mercy on us and on the whole world.

176 posted on 04/07/2005 9:45:03 PM PDT by B Knotts (Ioannes Paulus II, Requiescat in Pacem.)
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To: All; Wneighbor

Another woman is being hydrated and starved to death. For newbees or lurkers who don't know background, story is at end of contacts.

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Thursday, April 7, 2005
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Granddaughter yanks grandma's feeding tube
81-year-old neither terminally ill, comatose, nor in vegetative state
Posted: April 7, 2005
7:33 p.m. Eastern

By Sarah Foster
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

In a situation recalling the recent death of Terri Schiavo in Florida, an 81-year-old widow, denied nourishment and fluids for nearly two weeks, is clinging to life in a hospice in LaGrange, Ga., while her immediate family fights desperately to save her life before she dies of starvation and dehydration.

Mae Magouirk was neither terminally ill, comatose nor in a "vegetative state," when Hospice-LaGrange accepted her as a patient about two weeks ago upon the request of her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy, 36, an elementary school teacher.

Also upon Gaddy's request and without prior legal authority, since March 28 Hospice-LaGrange has denied Magouirk normal nourishment or fluids via a feeding tube through her nose or fluids via an IV. She has been kept sedated with morphine and ativan, a powerful tranquillizer.

Her nephew, Ken Mullinax, told WorldNetDaily that although Magouirk is given morphine and ativan, she has not received any medication to keep her eyes lubricated during her forced dehydration.

"They haven't given her anything like that for two weeks," said Mullinax. "She can't produce tears."

The dehydration is being done in defiance of Magouirk's specific wishes, which she set down in a "living will," and without agreement of her closest living next-of-kin, two siblings and a nephew: A. Byron McLeod, 64, of Anniston, Ga.; Ruth Mullinax, 74, of Birmingham, Ala.; and Ruth Mullinax's son, Ken Mullinax.

Magouirk's husband and only child, a son, are both deceased.

In her living will, Magouirk stated that fluids and nourishment were to be withheld only if she were either comatose or "vegetative," and she is neither. Nor is she terminally ill, which is generally a requirement for admission to a hospice.

Magouirk lives alone in LaGrange, though because of glaucoma she relied on her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy, to bring her food and do errands.

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177 posted on 04/07/2005 9:49:59 PM PDT by Sun (Visit www.theEmpireJournal.com * Pray for Terri. Pray to end abortion.)
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To: kstewskis

Sad, isn't it - just how has life become so cheap?


178 posted on 04/07/2005 9:50:13 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: Sun

Thank you Sun. I am still formatting ping information into a separate document. I think you did the rest of the work for me. Bless you.


179 posted on 04/07/2005 9:52:40 PM PDT by Wneighbor
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Delighted to help. :)


180 posted on 04/07/2005 9:54:36 PM PDT by Sun (Visit www.theEmpireJournal.com * Pray for Terri. Pray to end abortion.)
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