Granddaughter yanks grandma's feeding tube

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | April 7, 2005 | Sarah Foster

[Leatherneck_MT]

oops wrong thread lol

[Lexinom]

I've forwarded this letter in its entirety to my U.S. Representative, a "reasonable" Democrat, along with a plea for help. Both our senators are very sensitive to the "right to choose", as they call it, and would not likely touch this issue.

[Miss Behave]

Hi.

[Lexinom]

Yes, having all their workers killed off by greedy relatives WOULD be a good reason for businesses to head offshore.

[Lexinom]

Breach-of-justice ping

[BykrBayb]

My posts keep getting removed by moderator. I guess the advocates of involuntary euthanasia are feeling threatened again. I'll modify one of the posts that was pulled, and see if it stays this time. This was a reply to post #106 ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1379016/posts?page=106#106 ) on another thread. If anyone's interested in obtaining the portions that are deleted, freemail me. There are some phone numbers I didn't post, and won't provide, for privacy reasons. The info I did post previously (but deleted from this post) is public information, and consists solely of contact info for people that should be contacted in order to save Mae's life. The advocates of forced euthanasia do not want you to have this information. The family of Mae Magouirk (except her granddaughter) are trying to save Mae's life.

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My experience was almost the same as yours. I called every number except the judge. I didn't keep notes. Every time I finished one call, I went on to the next.

So, from memory, called and e-mailed Kenneth Mullinax. The recorded message confirmed the story, and asked that only media leave messages, to avoid overloading the machine. So I didn't leave a message.

Called Hospice-LaGrange, (ADDRESS & PHONE NUMBER DELETED). They confirmed they had a patient named Mae Magouirk. I didn't bother asking questions, because I know they wouldn't be able to answer. I simply informed them that if they didn't resume her nutrition and hydration, there would be a major media blitz.

Called Beth Gaddy (PHONE NUMBER DELETED). The line was being checked for problems. LOL - maybe it burst into flames!

Called Mr. A. B. McLeod (Her Brother). If memory serves, this number was a business, and I think McLeod was part of the business name. I spoke with a nice lady. I didn't ask questions. I just offered to help in any way they might need. I suggested that I could contact media, legislators, or anyone else they suggested. She took my name and phone number.

Called Mrs. Lonnie Ruth Mullinax (Her sister). I don't remember this call specifically. It's on my list of numbers I called though.

Called Hospice LaGrange’s in-house attorney Carol Todd
(PHONE NUMBER DELETED). She's taking the week of April 4 off, but you can call her assistant, K. Lewis (PHONE NUMBER DELETED). I got her voice mail. I left a message, letting her know that the media is being contacted, and she'd better make sure the hospice isn't breaking any laws.

Called Her local LaGrange, Ga. cardiologist, Dr. James Brennan (PHONE NUMBER DELETED). I wonder if I was the first caller. The woman was so polite at first. When I told her I was calling about one of his patients, Mae Magouirk, she remained polite, and confirmed she was a patient. I said I wanted to leave a message for the doctor. She asked what my relationship is to the patient. I told her I'm not related, but I heard she was being starved and dehydrated to death, and they should resume her nutrition and hydration. And... CLICK. I called back, and said, "You hung up on me before I could finish. Tell Dr. Brennan the media is being con... CLICK. I guess she heard enough. I didn't call back.

Called Dr. Raed Aqel, (PHONE NUMBER DELETED) a highly acclaimed interventional cardiologist at the nationally renowned University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center. Along with Dr. Brennan determined that Mae Magouirk’s aortic dissection is contained and not presently life threatening. His secretary was real nice, and took my message. Pretty much the same message: I'm aware she's being starved and dehydrated to death. I and several other people are contacting the media.

Called attorney for saving Mae’s life: Jack Kirby, Kirby & Roberts. The nice lady who answered the phone couldn't give any information, but she gave me Mr. Kirby's e-mail address. jkirby@kirbyroberts.com .

E-mailed Jack Kirby (E-MAIL ADDRESS DELETED). Explained that I read about Mae Magouirk on the Internet, and that I'd like to help. I offered to contact media, legislators, or anyone else he felt was appropriate.

I did not contact the court.

This is all from memory, after the fact. Some of the details may be a little off, but it's basically accurate.

[BykrBayb]

Division of Family and Childrens Services (DFCS)
Willie Rutledge
Troup County DFCS
504 East Depot Street
LaGrange, Georgia 30241-4631
(706) 845-4200
FAX (706) 845-4221

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Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue
Web Site: www.gov.state.ga.us
E-mail: Contact Via 'Web Form.' http://mygov.governmentguide.com/mygov/mail/?id=2582&type=GV&state=GA
203 State Capitol
Atlanta, GA 30334
Phone: (404) 656-1776
Fax: (404) 656-5947
Washington Office:
400 N. Capitol St., NW, Ste. 376
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 624-3681

[terrasol]

What strikes me as bizarre is that the probate "judge" in the case never even went to law school. Not that this in itself has to be problematic. The honorific title judge probably follows a similar rationale as the one allowing auctioneers to have themselves be addressed as colonel. Our probate judges here in North Carolina are also only clerks, and they generally do a good job. As long as they stick to keeping tabs on who gets what, no brilliant insight into statutes is required. The situation becomes weird when accountants start messing with life-and-death decisions. It seems that more strictures are placed on seasoned trial judges in capital cases than on county probate judges to whom law books can hardly be more than expensive wall insulation. Next thing we'll be reading legal opinions from the maintenance department. Are we sure we're headed in the right direction?

[k2blader]

Read the article again, or the responses to DG's original post, or maybe just this (which you apparently missed):

"Under the terms of his ruling, Gaddy was granted full and absolute authority over Magouirk, at least for the weekend. She took advantage of her judge-granted power by ordering her grandmother's feeding tube pulled out, just hours after it had been inserted."

[windchime]

Bump!

[windchime]

Bump!

[Bon mots]

The only reason we even found out about this is because someone actually became concerned and tried to stop it. Otherwise, this probably happens ten times per day by grandkids who are anxious to get an inheritance.

This bimbo has no telephone, so she probably needs the money.

Convenience is so important to the trailer trash these days. Babies are inconvenient, so they can be killed before they're born - grannies are invonvenient, and their money can come in handy, so the minute granny gets sick have her knocked off and taker her stuff.

[little jeremiah]

Moral Absolutes Ping.

It looks as though starving and dehydrating helpless people to death is now a common practice. For people who see separately - "It's only happening to old people" or "Terri S. was brain dead [lie] - I wouldn't want to live like that", or "people like that are about to die anyway", or "it would actually cruel to keep a baby like that alive" means that it's only a matter of time before the line demarcating those who are allowed to live from those who must die will creep closer and closer to - well, to them. And to us.

The question is - what are we going to do about it? Another question, why are medical professionals so eager to murder the very people they are supposed to help?

Let me know if you want on/off this pinglist.

(Special thanks to BykerBayb for reminding me about this article!)

[Mrs. P]

That is awful. I was recently told by someone who works in a nursing home near us (recently sold by my church's synod to a private company) that active euthanasia took place there. A family had two parents, one in the home and one at 'home'. Both were bedridden and incoherent but very much alive and not in a PVS. They got a doctor to order a very large dose of sedation, none of the nurses would give it because they refused to kill a human being. So, family hired a private duty 'nurse' who administered the drug, the patient died. Then, the 'nurse' went to their home and took care of the other parent, who died the next night.

I know a doc who used to be a ME, next time I run into him I think I'll ask him if he knows this is going on.

[mother22wife21]

Just noticing your tagline there. It is true.

[trickyricky]

Considering it is from WorldNutDaily, that is no surprise.
I'm sure they're leaving out any fact that doesn't support their agenda.

I'll take their "agenda" over the MSM's OR Fox's anyday.

[Cboldt]

We can justify all day long so that we feel we have no obligation to care about this case. But, no matter who has custody, they are still killing grandma against her wishes. Custody does not mean right to murder.

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I was speculating as to the specious rationale a court might use to justify giving power of guardianship to a person who has demonstrated a desire to kill grandma.

I'm coming around to wonder whether the people that assert these cases happen a hundred times a day are right. Chilling.

[Cboldt]

It'll all be whitewashed over with "it's a family decision." No matter that some of the family is running roughshod over the rest, or someone gets starved to death.

Don't forget the part where anybody who steps in, or who advocates that the executive steps in to stop the miscarriage of justice, is derided as being a busybody or as advocating "big government."

[An American Patriot]

"The immediate family can simply ask for her discharge from the facility and get it. So we're not getting all the facts here, just a bunch of hysteria."

Oh yes, "we" conservative "wackos" are "overreacting" once again.

Not to worry, Dog Gone, if Mae Magouirk succumbs to this yet another example of Judicial tyranny, it will soon be forgotten.

· UNTIL THE NEXT TIME!!!!!

[The Coopster]

It's not insane - it's completely expected.

After all, we set the precedent that it's ok to make a pathetic political/media circus out of family affairs.

Look for it to really get out of control over the next few years. You ain't seen nothin' yet.......