FR Research Thread on Terri II: Mae Magouirk

[PistolPaknMama]

Maybe that's what the poster meant. have the hospice put down as beneficiary.

Something is up with this whole hospice thing. They are sending non-terminal patients to hospice to die.

[djreece]

Financial power of attorney
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/gacode/10-6-141.html

Form
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/gacode/10-6-142.html

Appointment of guardians
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/gacode/29-5-6.html

Next of kin (in regard to autopsy here)
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/gacode/45-16-27.html

"It shall be the responsibility of the next of kin to show proof of the familial relationship. For purposes of securing a written release or when access to the photographs is requested by the next of kin, the deceased´s next of kin shall be:
(1) The spouse of the deceased if living;
(2) If there is no living spouse of the deceased, an adult child of the deceased;
(3) If there is no living spouse or adult child, a parent of the deceased;
(4) If there is no living spouse, adult child, or parent, a sibling of the deceased;
(5) If there is no living spouse, adult child, parent, or sibling of the deceased, a grandparent of the deceased;
(6) If none of the above are living, an uncle of the deceased;
(7) If none of the above are living, an aunt of the deceased; or
8) If none of the above are living, a first cousin of the deceased."

[djreece]

Health care power of attorney form
http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2003_04/gacode/31-36-10.html

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

WND

"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."

[Request for a feeding tube was denied. "Tube yanked" is still a great headline idea, cleared up immediately in the article. It was essentially yanked. So I'm kool with it, at least.]

Next, maybe we can draw upon someone's medical knowledge.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Supercat, we could really benefit from your medical knowledge.

I'm just a layman, so I want to know if I have this about right, and I'm also curious about your thoughts.

A feeding tube through the nose is, as I understand it, a supplimental form of nourishment. Full nourishment normally is sent through a tube through the mouth. She is conscious enough to eat, as I understand it. She would not even qualify for a hospice if she were given a feeding tube through the nose.

What's your take?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

' The dehydration is being done in defiance of Magouirk's specific wishes, which she set down in a "living will," '
WND.

I'd read something else about the power of attorney. BRB....

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Here's a google search about power of attorney:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&as_qdr=all&q=+%22Mae+Magouirk%22+%22power+of+attorney%22&btnG=Search

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Gag alert on this link. It's a discussion thread dissing us, the Free Republic. The initial writer does explain the skeptical view very well. It does not factor in state-of-the-art medicine, however:

http://lorraine.dailykos.com/story/2005/4/7/235635/1437

[Treader]

And you happen to be the one, whose BS has reach my limit to withstand. WTF is your problem with life being defended?

[Treader]

Situational ethics buggin' ya? Why? Go find a sin-eater, Gondring, and stop purging your guilt upon good souls.

[madison10]

Costing less, or not, why are people placed in "hospice" rather than in an extended care facility which most likely does not have the going-there-to-die aura about it? Why weren't the other family members informed?

What good does a WILL do if a d***** judge thinks he/she can overrule it? What, if anything, does Hillary-type care have to do with this? Who invests in these "hospices?"

Apparently the granddaughter wants the $$$$ sooner rather than later.

[madison10]

It's not her grandson, it's her nephew. His mom & Mae are sisters.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Increase might be bell curving today, although Saturdays tend to be slow. FReegards....

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

' Who invests in these "hospices?" '

Insurance companies benefit from them, huh?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

"Free Republic does not advocate violence..."

I'll be! It's against FR policy to side with death.

Interesting....

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Georgia 'Grandma's' life in hands of 3 cardiologists WND

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1380326/posts

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1380350/posts

A local paper reports on Terri 2.

"...A living will states that nourishment should be withheld only if she were in a coma or vegetative state with no hope of recovery..."

There you go. Looks like this is wrongful at first glance of this article.

[Gondring]

And you happen to be the one, whose BS has reach my limit to withstand. WTF is your problem with life being defended?

I have no problem with life being defended. I have raised funds (volunteer basis) for pro-life groups. I have written letters and newspaper columns that has supported life. And as for the current thread, I support this woman not being killed off against her living will.

But I don't support a blind "life at all costs" stance when it's against a person's rights. I don't support stopping capital punishment. I don't support pacificism.

Now, can you explain why you are so against me asking for facts, not unsupported and unsupportable claims?

[Gondring]

>>"Free Republic does not advocate violence..."

>I'll be! It's against FR policy to side with death.

...or the Iraq war, or shooting an intruder, or calling out the military to kidnap citizens, or...

[Gondring]

..and grandchild is not on that list, eh?