"Most people don't know this law exists in Texas. It's our dirty little secret," said Lanore Dixon, whose 54-year-old sister, Andrea Clark, died in a Houston hospital this year after her family clashed with hospital officials over whether to keep her alive.
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Dixon becomes tearful at times talking about her family's battle against the state law. She said she'll work to change it, using the Internet to tell her sister's story and post information about the Legislature.
Such Texas cases attracted heightened attention following the case of Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged Florida woman who died last year after her feeding tube was disconnected.
Critics oppose stop-treatment law
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Thanks to FReeper and researcher extraordinaire, BB.
A gunman fired on a car early Friday, killing a male passenger and injuring the pregnant driver and another passenger.
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Parks had earlier said the pregnant woman had died, but later Friday he said she was on life support.
Commentary: This is about the third article I've read recently in which the police erroneously declared someone dead while they were still alive. In the other instances, the undead people turned out to be brain damaged, and were dead within a few days. I have no doubt that will be the case here too.
1 killed, 2 wounded in Clayton County shootout
Don't you love it? These idiot reporters do not know the difference between "dying" and being purposely starved and dehydrated to death.
Let me rewrite a celebrated chapter of history to conform to modern journalism:
Chicago Tribune News Service, St. Valentine's Day, 1929. Seven members of the Bugs Moran gang died today. Police said the men happened to be in a near northside garage, facing the back wall with their hands up. Members of rival Al Capone's gang opened fire at that same garage wall with shotguns and submachine guns. Funeral arrangements for the seven men have not been announced.
Futile Care needs a spellcheck. It is FEUDAL CARE. (if you are a peon, you are expendable).