Posted on 06/15/2007 2:54:30 PM PDT by balch3
MESA, Ariz. - An incapacitated Chandler man in a hospice must be kept alive and given a special guardian, a judge has ruled. Jesse Ramirez, 36, suffered a broken neck, fractured skull, punctured lung, broken ribs and fractured face in a rollover crash May 30 in Chandler. A neurosurgeon told Ramirez's wife and family on June 8 that doctors had done all they could for Ramirez, who maintains minimal brain activity. Ramirez's wife, Rebecca, reportedly wants him to be denied food and water but his parents and sister want him to be given life-supporting care.
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Hope his parents have better luck against his ‘wife’ than Terry Schiavos’ had aginst her husband.
What kind of person (that was suppose to love you in sickness or in health) can look at the person they married and go “oh well, they’re not the person I married anymore — cut off the support!”
Sick, twisted, and evil...that’s what I call them.
What harm is it doing you if they ‘live’ that way? God wants them, he’ll call them and all the ‘medicine’ in the world can’t stop that.
excuse me I don’t mean to sound heartless but the ultimate decision should rest with the spouse, not her family.
He must have a hell of a life insurance policy.
St. Petersburg, FL, notwithstanding, a spouse doesn't have the right to kill a spouse.
I thought murder was illegal.
The ultimate decision must lie with the people paying the bill.
Shocking Statement.
Okay, who’s got the B&W photo of the guy going, “Aw geez, not THIS sh__ again!”?
It’s not, ask the Schindlers.
It is so very easy to take like away but there are none here that can give it.
Who is paying the bills?
Do you have any children?
It sounds like he is already dead.
I wonder how you would feel if you were that way related to Terri’s husband and it happened to you?
She probably can’t take of him.
This isn’t about end-of-life at all: it’s about INSURANCE, I suspect. The “wife” may be greedy for the coming “funds”. She can get a new house and wardrobe. Of course, if there is no insurance, she just wants to be “rid” of the “burden”.
Sure, tell that to my mother, who tried to get my stepfather food, antibiotics and hydration. Hospice decided to withhold it all and she had absolutely no say. She was trying to get him out of there but no place would take him since he was “in” hospice.
he had cancer, but was doing pretty well. He was up walking and eating, the morning he was admitted to hospice. He felt bad in the afternoon went to the hospital and they transferred him to hospice. Hospice told my mother it would be just like home care but that they would be helping her. They showed her a kitchen and said she could make him anything he wanted. They signed him in she went home to get some clothes for him and when she came back they had him in a bed with rails up, IV hooked up and a nothing by mouth sign over his bed. Hospice lied to my mother and she will never forgive or forget what they did to her husband.
Perhaps we should split up the bill and send it to the people on this thread who believe he should be kept on life support indefinitely? We don't know the details. Perhaps the man was of the opinion (like me) that he didn't want to end up on life-support. So I would reserve judgment until I had all the facts before preaching what this lady should or should not do.
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