"Prepare the way for the Lord, cause you gots to be ready for when the time comes." "Because the Lord commeth as a thief in the night!"
"Have you seen the light!"
Posted on 06/01/2006 3:25:42 PM PDT by lunarbicep
Neurologist Dr. Ronald Cranford, one of the nation's leading medical ethicists and right-to-die advocates, died Wednesday at a hospice in Edina, from complications of kidney cancer. He was 65.
Cranford was thrust into the public spotlight by the case of Terry Schiavo, a Florida woman he diagnosed in 2002 as being in an irreversible vegetative state. He defended his diagnosis throughout her husband's court battle to remove her feeding tube in 2005.
Cranford's daughter, Kristin Cranford of Long Beach, Calif, said her father was a "down to earth, easy going, non-pretentious man who told it like it was. He was extremely funny and witty and he will most be remembered by how generous he was, especially with his time."
Ronald Cranford graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago in 1965. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a flight surgeon during the Vietnam War and came to Minnesota to complete his residency.
He practiced medicine for 35 years, most recently as a neurologist and clinical teacher at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis.
According to information provided by his family, he wrote more than 90 papers on subjects at the crossroads of medicine, law, and ethics, including determining brain death and when to stop food and water for patients who were permanently unconscious.
His wife, Candy Crawford, told the Star Tribune that although her husband spoke forcefully about his view on patient's rights, he did not support euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.
Ronald Crawford is survived by his wife, sons Craig Losure and Michael Don Carlos; brother Tom Cranford and daughters Kristin and Robyn Moder. His daughters were holding his hands when he died, the family said.
Prayers for Dr. Cranford and his family.
I quite agree...
Thanks. :-)
How do you murder someone with no brain function? That is the definition of death. She was already dead. Just the cells of the body were still alive and functioning.
Yup, this supporter of murder got better treatment than Terri. Very sad.
And on that note, I am abandoning this thread. I am not going to convince anyone and I am not going to try.
Good call. You can't argue with people who have chosen to evade the facts and base everything on unsubstantiated belief.
It's hard to argue with people who support the ending of innocent life, too.
"How do you murder someone with no brain function?"
I heard a rabbi explain it like this. "If there is no breath, there is no life" Therefore if one is removed from a respirator and stops breathing then they are dead.
Terri had minimal brain function and not on a respirator otherwise she was very much alive. If the rabbi's statement is correct then starving Terri to death when she could breathe on her own could be described as murder.
Are you a neurologist? Did you examine her? Because if you aren't and you didn't, you don't know at all!
What rabbi?
Sorry I can't remember the rabbi's name...I heard it on the Dennis Prager Show last year. What a profound statement I thought.
"Prepare the way for the Lord, cause you gots to be ready for when the time comes." "Because the Lord commeth as a thief in the night!"
"Have you seen the light!"
Why is this even news?
Notice you're a newbie. Is that you, Dr. Kevorkian?
tflabo and I have already stated what millions believe to be true and there are facts to substantiate Terry's true state BEFORE she was slowly and cruelly starved to death. And no, I'm not a neurologist, so what?
If the only way you can talk is trying to insult, like radio astronomer I leave the thread...
You won't convince me at all... And you only demean yourself by your posts...
"You don't know that either. Just because she was brain dead, it does not automaticall make her either a saint or a sinner."
OK R.A. Let's 'assume' she was TOTALLY brain dead yet she breathes on her own. Is her soul dead as well at that point in time?
Buh bye. Doorknob and all that.
No point in posting to r.a. or Alama. They have typically dropped their bombs, cut and run.
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