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 ...
Also, it appears the authorities got into the act at least somewhat, perhaps a lot more than they would have wished if only the subject were only in the MSM.
Pressure applied by us and others on the Internet just may be nudging some real justice for a change.
I can almost imagine it! A judge making a fair ruling in my lifetime.
Here is the article again.
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interesting -- thanks for finding and posting that.
bump for later study on good hospices / bad hospices. There are both in this area. May we have the wisdom to know the difference and to make good choices.
"bump for later study on good hospices / bad hospices. There are both in this area. May we have the wisdom to know the difference and to make good choices."
You said it.
When in doubt, stay away from hospices (if you have a choice).
Actually many people were paying attention. This has been an issue in the pro-life movement for years. There was little we could do stop it back then.
Am I just a day late and a dollar short, as usual : ), or has someone already connected the dots... that the Schindlers by their position, etc., just happen to share the name of the name of "Schindler's List"?
It is one of those ironies even mentioned in the Bible like Felos having the name, Felo de se which roots in Latin his origin in malice and suicide.
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On Oskar Schindler...
Abraham Zuckerman said, "The movie didn't show all the little things he did; he came around and greeted you. I had food, protection, and hope."
Terri Schiavo Link on Tuesday's 'Law & Order: SVU' Inevitable
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On Bob Schindler.....
He came around and comforted us when we were in distress, and surmounted his own distress to do so.
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Snippets
Charleston Area Medical Center staff who treat, counsel and comfort the dying and their families will try to initiate a plan Nov. 29 with a case study presentation, a discussion of the ethics behind end-of-life choices and steps on completing a living will or medical power-of-attorney form.
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Some question how useful a living will actually is. A research paper titled “Enough: the Failure of the Living Will,” published in 2004 by the bioethics-focused Hastings Center in New York, suggested that living wills are hard to understand, afford and enforce.
CAMC event to cover end-of-life planning
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THE High Court has been asked to decide whether severely disabled children can sue over medical negligence which resulted in their birth rather than abortion.
In a landmark hearing, two disabled children, one now a young woman and the other a three-year-old girl, are seeking the right to sue their mothers' doctors for wrongful life.
One of the claims has been brought by Sydney woman Alexia Harriton, 24, who was born deaf, blind, physically and mentally disabled and not expected to live more than six months.
She now requires 24 hour a day care.
Disabled suing over 'wrongful life'
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I'm going to die at home just like my grandfather did being taken care of by his two daughters. No way will I go into a Hospice and let them take care of me. The only way to die is with your family taking care of you!
Should be interesting, I always watch SVU.
I agree my mother's death in June still haunts me. She was 89, she was heavily medicated for pain (bone cancer), had an IV for fluids, and it was far from peaceful. The one thing I do know ....... she IS NOW at peace.
There are actors more suited to playing HINO. Like the guy in the Bond movie with the steel teeth. (very attractive).
Law & Order just did an episode about a woman whose life was spared and there were many scenes straight from 102nd Ave. and the courthouse scenes. Is this a repeat or another episode about euthanazi's vs. Christians?
The only time the GOP and the DNC get along is when they VOTE THEMSELVES SALARY INCREASES which seem to happen with regularity.
So, what is this SVU?
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