Posted on 11/04/2005 3:24:09 AM PST by 8mmMauser
Family members are investigating what they consider to be suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a nursing home patient at the center of a life and death tug-of-war reminiscent of the Terri Schiavo tragedy.
Seventy-nine-year-old Jimmy Chambers died in the early morning hours of Oct. 24 after the tracheotomy tubes that deliver oxygen from a ventilator to a hole in his neck became unhooked. Family members were told Chambers, a resident of the Anne Maria Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in North Augusta, S.C., apparently pulled the interlocking tubes apart.
"We're having it investigated. We're just incredulous," Chambers' daughter, Deanna Potter, told WND in reference to her siblings. "The last time I saw dad he was blowing me a kiss. I blew him one and he blew one back."
The retired dispatcher for Holland Motor Express died approximately 10 hours later. His death certificate indicates he died of "natural causes."
"Apparently, suffocation is a 'natural cause' when you're on a ventilator. We're contesting that," said Potter. "He suffocated. He didn't just pass away. He struggled and fought. And I'm just so angry."
Potter estimates it would have taken 10 to 14 minutes for her father, deprived of oxygen, to fall unconscious, and questions why the nursing home staff didn't come to his aid.
"The oxygen-saturation meter and his ventilator both would have had alarms going off. Four-thirty, five o'clock in the morning you'd think someone would hear this," she added. "That's the thing that really bothers me and makes me suspicious."
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That the left sees this as purely a theological battle is telling.
Terri was Catholic. I am having difficulty explaining to my husband that I want to live and live even in pain because it is my prayer that my sufferings are offered for the Holy Souls and for the conversion of sinners, not to mention my own expiation. This is not an academic argument. I am in this position now.
This isn't a theological Catholic v. Prots. battle. What is mine is mine, what's yours is yours.
The battle is whether my wishes will be respected. Will my family decide that they cannot watch this battle, and it truly is a war, and end my life before it should be ended?
I really believe there are those who know that the prayers offered in suffering are heard and Satan has to stop that at any cost.
Thanks for the ping!
I think Christians here would be interested in this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1529095/posts#comment
Carrie Hutchens has an Op-Ed on Felos in North Country Gazette.
Excerpt
I still have a visual of George Felos smiling and strutting so proudly as Terri Schiavo -- the delicate soul -- experienced death on demand. Death on demand, the movement that appears to be taking over the once sane, intelligent and informed citizenry of the United States. The citizenry that appears to now be willing to give up its defective to prove it's evolution into the cold hard thinking of pure logic -- the Rule of Law as some call it. However, the questions become...
Whose law?
Whose definition?
8mm
CLEARWATER---Did you know that a judge can enter a judgment for several thousand dollars against you without you even being made a party to a lawsuit?
Did you know that a judge can bring baseless criminal charges against you, have you arrested, and bring you before him to be tried without a jury?
Of course, most of us realize that injustice like this happens in third world dictatorships, but this is happening right now in the United States in the Tampa Bay Area of Florida.
JUSTICE FOR ALL OR JUSTICE FOR SALE
8mm
I'd like to hear Chelsea's wishes....
Sometimes it seems that the GOP has stolen the Democrat talking points, doesn't it?
Libby will not be convicted though. He's hooked up with the people who murdered Terri and Mr. GOP Sembler (moneybags) will protect one of their own while funding the killing of someone's daughter at the same time.
I repeat: Mel Sembler runs the United States HIS WAY. That's why I'll be glad when the Bushes term out. They are too cute with fundraisers and loyal to them to a fault.
That's why Terri's deceased.
Didn't the Rolling Stones do a song about Lucifer? I suppose that the devil struts around like Mick or Felos, the man who can crash planes with his mind but has to use the court system to exterminate people.
http://www.scottsfight.com/
Meanwhile, other laws are violated but are never prosecuted.
And finally, why are guardianship judges executing people?????
They do not have the authority to do that but have convinced the sheeple via the media that they do have the authority to execute innocent people.
Sembler is fundraising for Scooter Libby's defense?
Why the fundraising? Has Libby been charged with anything?
The Germans have a more expressive word for "leader" -- FUEHRER.
Returning a favor, Florida's top Hispanic officeholder is helping the gubernatorial candidate raise money, and may soon endorse him.
A coup for Crist: Martinez's backing
8mm
These RINOS can turn on a dime, can't they?
And, I do not subscribe to thte St. Pete Times but they can be useful idiots.
I have a Tampa Tribune article to get the link for. A congressman's long time aide was impaled by a rocking chair post. Of course God didn't do it. But, whose to say that when you work on the side of the death worshippers, you may be next. How much more Stephen King can Tampa Bay get?
Getting impaled by a rocking chair. Her boss was/is a Hospice Board member. He's fine. She's dead. RIP.
http://www.tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGBLNDTFOGE.html
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