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
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.