'Grandma' Mae Magouirk dies; 81-year-old was at center of post-Schiavo euthanasia controversy

WorldNetDaily ^ | May 16, 2005 | By Sarah Foster

[supercat]

Ora Mae Magouirk, the 81-year-old Georgia widow at the center of a contentious family fight over her medical treatment and right to live, (link broken in original) died of a stroke today at approximately 8 a.m. Eastern, at a nursing home in LaGrange, Ga., according to her nephew, Ken Mullinax of Birmingham, Ala.

Mullinax told WorldNetDaily that his aunt's condition had improved considerably since her ordeal last month, but took a turn for the worst Wednesday when her vital signs began to weaken. On Sunday an apparent stroke hit her, causing her to have difficulty with speaking, and her blood pressure dropped to 60/30.

She died surrounded by family, including her brother, A.B. McLeod, 65, of Anniston, Ala., who had spent eight hours with her Sunday, Mullinax said.

[Louis Foxwell]

How will YOU play God? Will you give food and water to the hungry and thirsty or will you deny food and water to the sick and feeble?
Providing water and food are acts of love. We give them to our babies and to our profoundly disabled. We deny them when we are ravaged with bitterness and malicious intent.
Thirst and hunger are increasingly painful and terrible. Regardless of our condition, our bodies demand nourishment.
Your vile intent to flush the feeble describes perfectly the condition of your soul.

[Louis Foxwell]

Are we going to force old sick people who are obviously circling the drain to live to satisfy the sick wishes of total strangers?

How will YOU play God? Will you give food and water to the hungry and thirsty or will you deny food and water to the sick and feeble?

Providing water and food are acts of love. We give them to our babies and to our profoundly disabled. We deny them when we are ravaged with bitterness and malicious intent.

Thirst and hunger are increasingly painful and terrible. Regardless of our condition, our bodies demand nourishment.

Your desire to flush the feeble describes perfectly the condition of your soul.

[RGSpincich]

Here is the proof. She was terminal and placed in the hospice accordingly. Mullinax lied about Mae being starved and dehydrated, she was receiving nourishment while in the hospice. It was a phony story from the git.

[RGSpincich]

She never had a feeding tube. Pulling it would be impossible.

[penowa]

Yes, you are correct. She needed a feeding tube and was denied one by her granddaughter. Once she was transferred from the hospice to the U. of Ala., she was rehydrated through an IV and was then subsequently able to eat again.

[penowa]

"Her living will did not match the Georgia model, and was ambiguous as to what is being requested..."

Can you tell me where you found this info? I can't locate anything that says her living will was not a legal document or that it was not specific, etc. The only articles with any info concerning her living will that I have read are WND 4/09/05, David Kupelian, Grandma airlifted to Medical Center; WND 4/7/05, Sarah Foster; News.Telegraph, 4/17/05, Jacqui Goddard in Miami. None of them say that there was anything legally wrong with her living will. Everything else is a blog or forum as I don't think this made it into the MSM. Thanks.

[cycjec]

sc: Her "Living Will" did not match the Georgia model...
Her ordeal also serves to illustrate the practical
unworkability of so-called "Living Wills" Back in June
of 2004, Kathleen Kerr reported in Newsday that the living
will is a failure. (Newday June 21, 2004), with a list of
experts saying so, even bioethicists. And there's more
than enough reporting that indicates that hospital staff
do not inquire as to the provisions of a living will, but
regard it as a blanket "Do Not Treat" request. See
Gordon Watt's article http://hometown.aol.com/gww1210/
LivingWillsAndPVS.html

The search for the "right" document is not the approach to
take. We need to work for disallowing any dehydration/
starvation procedures -- be they "requested" or not.

[RGSpincich]

Once she was transferred from the hospice to the U. of Ala., she was rehydrated through an IV and was then subsequently able to eat again.

And there she died from a stroke caused by the original problem ...aortic dissection. Her La Grange physician was correct in his diagnosis that Mae was terminal at the beginning of this fiasco.

[Sally]

Hi Fred. Yes, I got an email late Sunday that Mae had died, God rest her soul. I imagine that her ordeal was very hard on her and may have hastened her death. But still, she died under good care, with food & water in her belly and family at her side. At God's appointed hour. I sent a peace lily to the funeral home for her visitation earlier this evening.

I cannot believe some of the remarks by idiots and sadistic bastards in this thread! Hey you godless cretins... I've got a news flash for you: WE ARE ALL TERMINAL. Maybe later I'll go plug my neighbor full of lead. Then I'll just calmly explain, "Well, he was absolutely, positively, going to die some day. I just decided to pick today for him."

[Fred Nerks]

Thanks for the reply Sally, believe me, I understand your anger.I'm happy too, that Miss Mae passed away with her family around her in a hospital where she was being cared for and wasn't starved and dehydrated to death in a hospice, where she was refused even eye drops for glaucoma, which is very painful. Ken obviously didn't want to distress her by telling her what happened, proving once more what a decent human being he is.
We'll never know how much longer she might have lived if her granddaughter hadn't arranged for Miss Mae to 'go to Jesus' and she wasn't sedated with doses of morphine for the journey - a pox on Gaddy and the sadistic bastards on this thread.
Nice to know you sent a flower. I'll send a prayer.

[Pajamajan]

"It's pretty hard for anyone to survive starvation, dehydration, and massive amounts of narcotics, nevermind a person in their 80's"

I'm not surprised that she passed away. That was too much stress for her body to handle. Of course the death freaks, who place no value on life, will say they should have just let her die of dehydration/starvation(sick), because she was going to die anyway.

I don't know what happened to people, that they have become so calloused and cold. They can't understand why it's wrong to starve and dehydrate a sick or disabled person to death? These are the same people who hold vigils, and shed tears, begging to spare the lives of vicious killers on death row. It makes no sense at all.

As for Mae's family- I hope they have made sure- since they are older themselves- that there is no way the "granddaughter" can ever end up as their guardian. They should make it clear that she has no rights and is cut off completely.

Rest in Peace with the Lord Grandma Mae. At least she died with her family at her side, and from natural causes.

That's another lie the death cultist's are trying to put over on people- that a person can be kept alive indefinitely- not true.

When someone's time is up- they shut down- the whole body shuts down- in spite of every medical intervention.

[supercat]

Can you tell me where you found this info?

I don't have a reference handy, but one of the longer threads about Ms. Magouirk included links to a collection of documents including her living will (scanned) as well as a link to the Georgia statute which gives a model form for a living will. The line spacing and the wording of the second item in Ms. Magoirk's copy are changed so that a quick reading of her version would yield an interpretation opposite what one would get with the model form.

[Awestruck]

May God rest her sweet soul... and bring His Almighty Justice upon those who would harm her.

[Cboldt]

I don't have a reference handy, but one of the longer threads about Ms. Magouirk included links to a collection of documents including her living will (scanned) as well as a link to the Georgia statute which gives a model form for a living will. The line spacing and the wording of the second item in Ms. Magoirk's copy are changed so that a quick reading of her version would yield an interpretation opposite what one would get with the model form.

Link to the general vicinity below. There is substantive discussion relating to the language of the living will as early as 2319, and as late as 2399.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1379016/posts?page=2327#2327 <--

[yellowdoghunter]

Thanks for the ping.
I am saddened to hear about her death, my sympathies to the family. At least she wasn't starved to death for WEEKS.

Speaking of the devil.....yes, it was pretty funny...classic....see my mail to you.

Have a great day!

[penowa]

It's always helpful to have the MD who performed the autopsy on the victim available to all us dimwit non-medical persons. Next time you offer your medical opinion as to the cause of death, please identify yourself with your credentials and give us more of the info you derived from the autopsy you performed.

[brytlea]

No, we are not going to stop feeding and hydrating them because their granddaughter wants their money NOW.
susie

[TigersEye]

The We Pull Plugs For Fun bunch is mad as hell. They take no solace that Mae was weakened by starvation, dehydration and drugging which undoubtedly contributed to this stroke. It has to be counted as a natural death so there's no notch on the belt for them.

[RGSpincich]

Mullinax played you gullible drama queens like a cheap fiddle. Mae was terminal at the beginning, was placed in hospice, received nourishment, was uprooted by a professional media busybody, flown to Alabama, died from the original illness. The granddaughter did nothing wrong but was thumped mercilessly by some so-called Christians here.

[penowa]

Pleased to know that you are either psychic or the coroner who performed the autopsy. In case of the latter, please list your credentials and while you are at it, a copy of your autopsy report. Look who is calling me a "Drama Queen!" At least I am not posing as a medical examiner (or "playing one" on FR.)