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]
"Oh what a wicked slippery slope we slide, when we first practice euthanasiacide."
I know that's not a word, but it's got to rhyme.
Sorry for double posting info. did look for any freepers from other thread. Missed this, I'm sorry.
I obviously have no direct or inside information, but my first problem comes with the suggestion that a hospital did not distinguish one kind of POA from another as this is very easy and they are exposing themselves to liability for a mistake like this so are motivated to take care. Second, the hospital would know whether a patient was terminal and that the purpose of a transfer to hospice is meant for terminal patients which would raise all kinds of red flags. Then, admission to a hospice requires very specific documentation, and I don't see that referenced. Just a few things that got my attention.
that makes sense.
Who cares? Old people are a drain on society anyway. Who else is gonna be next? <\ liberal mode>
OMG. I'm sick - again. Literally sick over this. I just don't understand people like this.
That's not the way I read it. What "facts" are missing? The family went to the hospice to ask for her release (let's face it, in her condition, deprived of food & water and being force-fed pain medication) they can't just pile into the family station wagon and drive granny to the hospital. Surely you as an astute, logical, nonhysterical observer can figure that one out. They arranged for her to be transferred to another facility. While her release was supposedly being taken care of, darling granddaughter, who considered grandma an "incovenience" went before a judge to gain power of attorney over her. In spite of granny's living will, in spite of a WRITTEN document stating who was to make medical decisions for her and the kind of care she wanted, the judge ruled in favor of the granddaughter. Wasn't part of the mantra during the "kill Terri" lectures that she should have had a living will? Fat lot of good it's doing granny. If this kind of thing doesn't happen and these people are just being hysterical, why then does the hospice Terri died at have to pay the federal government back for committing just this kind of fraud?
Cindie
Oh, goodness. A modern children's story.
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This is absolutely outrageous...
Aside from wondering if the entire story is a hoax, I did notice that the hospital and hospice are in the same family. And, if the hospital and hospice were told that granny was going to be taken off feeding, then according to the law, she was terminal. That's how it worked for Terri too. Scheduled natural death by starvation is adequate grounds for hospice admission. The mistake, as you pointed out, would have been to take a general POA as a medical one.
I can't figure out the reference to Florida either. Isn't this story set in Georgia?
There does seem to be a bit of evil entwined in the story. Imagine the granddaughter getting custody for a weekend only, but promptly having the tube removed. Amazing!
If this is true, it must be stopped. If this is WND selective reporting of facts, that should be stopped, too.
How long before we hear Felos is representing Gaddy?
Since nothing has changed in the way probate and guardianship has happened for hundreds of years, the problem of showing up dead must have some other cause.
May I suggest that it's the hospice concept from the get-go!
These people are in the business of death. They can't help it.
Whatever benefit folks think hospice care brings, it's pretty clear they will need to be razed to the ground and their practitioners scattered.
Yeah...me too. I'm going to have to do some research on this- something doesn't fit here. This is wild.
I hope you don't think I suggested any of these things in anything that I said.
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