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To: torchthemummy
If I may I'll jump to my safer, life-affirming conclusion: the granddaughter got sick of the old lady and needed more time to herself. And who knows what kinda monetary flow is hanging in the balance. I don't know but heck I'll jump to conclusions that have some common sense angles vs. a hospice director saying she was getting great care when she was being starved from the get go.

Glen Beck got duped and so did you. She was receiving nourishment all week.

It is a fact that Grandma suffered from the aorta dissection. Brain damage is a well known byproduct of aorta dissection. My common sense says that is likely what happened and Gaddy was following Grandma's wishes.

There is nothing to suggest that Gaddy had ulterior motives. Your leaps to conclusions are baseless.

636 posted on 04/09/2005 9:52:36 PM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: RGSpincich

"Glen Beck got duped and so did you. She was receiving nourishment all week."

I didn't listen to Glen Beck so I can't support/refute what he did or didn't say. I'll take your word for it. The tube was removed from March 31 to April 1. Only when the brother, sister, with the legal POA, exercise their legal rights did the feeding tube get restored.

"It is a fact that Grandma suffered from the aorta dissection. Brain damage is a well known byproduct of aorta dissection. My common sense says that is likely what happened and Gaddy was following Grandma's wishes."

I do not doubt the possibility of brain damage but I have not seen one statement from a medical professional to testify to such. Commonsense to me would say that absent such determination that such brain damage could be determined as vegetative in a matter of 24hrs and have legal standing based on an instant review would not be possible.

"There is nothing to suggest that Gaddy had ulterior motives. Your leaps to conclusions are baseless."

To reiterate: presuming a medical determination that requires a standard gestation period of observation/tests that would allow a conclusion that this woman is in a vegetative state (and therefore could be legally starved to death) is baseless on it's face.


637 posted on 04/09/2005 10:18:08 PM PDT by torchthemummy ("Terrorism has less to do with economic poverty than with political poverty." - Jane Novak)
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