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Foundation Collaboration: Two Decades to an American Culture of Death  Lifetree.org  PDF

Two Decades to an American Culture of Death  Lifetree.org  html

Missoula Demonstration Project (which later became Life's End Institute) is founded in Missoula, Montana, by Ira Byock and Barbara Spring.  Initial funding came from Nathan Cummings Foundation and Project on Death in America.  In addition, Mayday provided $150,000 (1996-1999) for Missoula's "Pain as the Fifth Vital Sign" project, conducted by Linda Torma, MSN.  In 1999, executive director Barbara Spring would be replaced by bioethicist Mark Hanson of the Hastings Center.  Hanson would also become interim director of the Practical Ethics Center at Univ. of Montana (Promoting Excellence headquarters).

Sean Morrison-  Project on Death in America Newsletter   Fox frequent guest week of Terri Schindler death

Soros' first round of Open Society Institute and Project on Death in America Faculty Scholars include: 

Diane Meier, Judith C. Ahronheim, Jane Morris, Sean Morrison OSI Scholars at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in NY-Andrew Billings ( OSI Scholar, MGH/Harvard)-Wm. Breitbart (OSI Scholar, Memorial Sloan-Kettering/Cornell)-Nicholas Christakis (U.Chicago)-Stuart Farber (U. Wash.)-Carlos Gomez (U.Va.)-Sarah Goodlin (White River Junction, VT and Dartmouth)-Steven Miles (U.Minn.)-Thomas Smith (Va. Commonwealth)-James Tulsky (Duke)-Charles von Gunten (Northwestern)-David Weissman (Med. Coll. of Wisconsin)

Reflections On Death In America - Soros November 30, 1994

"In three years we will have a leader and role model in place in one-fourth of the countrys medical schools."

1995 OSI Faculty Scholars

Project Summary: Development of faculty from all clinical departments to be palliative care consultants and role models.

Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)

Sean Morrison - Fox News Interview   

Dr. Sean Morrison, a professor of geriatric and internal medicine at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York, said that while coma patients recover, patients in a persistent vegetative state do not.

He also said it was wrong to characterize Schiavo's death as starvation.

"What happens is she loses fluid from her body, she enters a peaceful coma and she gradually passes away, very gently and very peacefully," he said.

The Debate Over Terri Schiavo  Congressman Dave Weldon-Dr. Sean Morrison - Partial Transcript O'Reilly Factor  3-21-05

 

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 The Case Heard Round the Web How Terri Schiavo Became a Household Name. -- What happened to Terri Schiavo has really frightened and awakened many good Americans who had believed that we had courts and laws to protect us, but our courts and laws did not afford any protection for Terri, she was forced to die by our courts, and none helped her in her hour of need.
America today is ruled not by elected representatives, but unelected judges, governed not by law but by the arbitrary – and in the case of George Greer, homicidal – whims of people in black robes."