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."
(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...
Thanks for the info.!
I hope the truth comes out.
There are some pro-life hospices, but the wisdom is to know the difference.
Here's a link that I have about hospices (the bad ones):
http://www.hospicepatients.org/knowing-the-death-dealers.html
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Don't have anything about George Soros and a hospice per se, but this is closely related:
In 1994, emigree billionaire Geroge Soros wrote a check for $15 million to finance the Project on Death in America (PDIA). Its goal was to “transform the culture of death in the United States.” By 2003 when the PDIA ended its grant making and closed the program, it had distributed $45 million to organization and individuals working on end-of-life issues. Altho, the project is closed the work goes on. Is a large part of that work to make doctor-assisted suicide legal? It would seem so.
On the May 18th Fox News O’Reilly show, investigative reporter and best selling author Richard Poe gave an expose on Soros. Poe claims Soros is a maniacal figure who fancies himself as a New Age Messiah and that his philanthropy funds abortion, atheism, drug legalization, sex education, gay marriage, and globalization. He is out to destroy America as we know it, says Poe. In a Newmax cover story, Poe writes of the dark purpose behind Soros’ $200-million “Project on Death” program. Soros, who authored The Bubble of American Supremacy, is bankrolling the Democratic party’s attempt to unseat President Bush. Militantly anti-religious, Soroswrites that "devout believers of any sort are idiots who shouldn't hold public office."
Excerpt from: http://www.missionsun.net/tcajune2004.htm
Various links:
In 1995, the newsletter of a group called Choice in Dying listed seven organizations in a “Guide to Right-to-Die Organizations.” At least four of them (Compassion in Dying, Death with Dignity Education Center, the Oregon Death with Dignity Legal Defense and Education Center, and Choice in Dying itself) have attracted funding from large foundations.
One such foundation is George Soros’s Open Society Institute (OSI). The OSI, through its Project on Death in America, gives millions of dollars for enhancing end-of-life care and none of the Project’s money is used for assisted suicide purposes. But the OSI provides grants for assisted suicide advocacy through OSI’s President’s Fund in its U.S. Programs office.
http://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/magazines/2001/january/marker.html
P.S. the hospice link wasn't quite what I thought it was. I haven't looked at it in a long time.
On Thursday, Nov. 10, the father of North Country Gazette publisher June Maxam suffered a massive stroke. He is a patient at Eden Park Nursing Home in Glens Falls. He has not been hospitalized. The nursing home claims he cannot swallow and that they are "maintaining his dignity". The current plan is to place him in a hospice, withhold all nutrition and hydration and wait for him to die.
June Maxam has been key to our information regarding Terri for ages, has kept at it when others drifted away. She is the one publishing at the Empire Journal and the North Country Gazette and is a frequent and best source for breaking news about the Terri atrocity. Now, she is faced with her own horror.
Please check out the link in the article, too. It is her own father they want to dehydrate!
No Dignity In Death By Dehydration
8mm
I got a message from her yesterday but had not looked to see if anything was online about it this a.m. Still trying to wake up. I've sent it out to all my contacts and will see what we can find out online. We need to do what we can to help!!
Just tell me what to do and I'll do it. Who can I call, who can I contact? Do you have phone numbers? Let's get to work. I am praying as we speak. A powerful scripture to address this situation is Psalm 71.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47342
Just last week, the St. Pete Times quoted a freeper regarding FR's real time hurricane threads.
Thanks Jim Robinson for your gravitas and your leadership.
June Maxam has my prayers and support. FV
I can't be of much help right now due to another project but what about the New York freepers? They may have more info on who's who up there.
Your 153. We are being heard. It is not an overnight process though. We will be here until there is a federal ban on starving and dehydrating Americans period unless they sign a directive and UNLESS that directive is revocable! Congress' toll free number is on my home page. www.conservative-spirit.org.
FV SAYS: Gist of the article: A reader of World Net Daily tore up their Living Will after following World Net Daily's ongoing coverage of forced exits. LINK IS POSTED ABOVE.
FV, I am still here and support a ban on starvation and dehydration as a way to die. It is so wrong and yet our world has slowly become to accept it as ok. Thing is when someone who is really dying like my grandfather did it is different to withhold food from them than it is to someone who is not dying like Terri was and so many other's. My grandfather slipping into unconsciousness on a Sunday night after eating that day and died on a Wed. night. We didn't deny him moisture like they did to Terri. We all took turns getting a wet rag and placing it in his mouth. He didn't eat and no fooding tube was placed as we knew he only had hours and he wasn't dying of dehydration or starvation, he died of cancer. But to take that away from someone who just has an injury, is old, or unable to speak for whatever reason is criminal and wrong!
Ping to Terri November Dailies. Written Directives, etc.
George Soros is tied to Tallahassee lawmakers and all the Florida Right to Die groups.
To get more info on this topic, try googling George Soros and George Felos, former Fla Right to Die Director and also a former Hospice Director (Hospice Woodside).
Then there's ERGO which is the new name for Hemlock Society. They have a web site but I can't recall what the ERGO stands for. It's the hemlockers though.
Soros has a web page dedicated to forced exits. I posted about it some time ago...
Finally, try www.judgegeorgegreer.com (they may have something - lotsa links).
State of Florida is a partner in the culture of death. Look at Fla first. FV
This is just awful! I want the world to wake up and know that this is going on, and has been going on for some time. I am not trying to say that all nursing homes and caretakers are bad, but the odds of finding good and honest ones are getting harder and harder. I will completely support June Maxam in her fight against this facility and its administators.
Please ping me to any response of how we should go about taking action. I want this kind of stuff exposed! It needs to be rooted out of our society!
Excerpt from WND: "I believe all parties would agree that Mr. Chambers is incapacitated at this time," Johnson wrote. "However, the Petitioner is of the opinion that if the ATIVAN, BENADRYL, MORPHINE were withdrawn that Mr. Chambers would again be able to make his own medical decisions."
ATIVAN is often prescribed as an anti-anxiety type medication and has a slowing down effect, BENADRYL can make one very sleepy and MORPHINE is for severe pain such as the kind of pain experienced by terminally ill patients.
JIMMY CHAMBERS WASN'T TERMINALLY ILL, he said he wanted to live, they had to take his ability to communicate from him so they could bump him off for Mrs. Chambers.
The more secular a society we become, the more shenanigans are going to be pulled on innocent people.
Welcome to Free Republic. God Bless Terri and your dear father. They will not have died in vain.
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