Posted on 04/07/2005 2:59:57 AM PDT by schmelvin
Excellent idea.
And you are right.....
:-(
I just sent this email to the family's attorney. (I will let you all know if/when I get a response.):
Mr. Kirby,
I'm writing to you regarding a press release that was posted at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1379016/posts
According to the press release, Mae Magouirk is being starved (against her wishes as stated in her living will) by her granddaughter (who was not appointed medical power-of-attorney in Ms. Magouirk's living will, but was granted that status against Ms. Magouirk's stated wishes by Probate Judge Boyd).
Many of us at Free Republic are concerned about this development.
We are trying to verify:
1.) How accurately the press release describes the situation.
2.) The status of the case (Although I realize you may not be legally allowed to reveal much about this case to the public.)
Free Republic has a number of members who are very well connected, (politically and in the media) and we would like to help. We are attempting to verify the circumstances mentioned in the press release and the current status of the case (a clerk at Judge Boyd's office told me this morning that the matter had already been settled yesterday, but did not seem to know whether or not the matter had been settled in favor of Mae's siblings or the granddaughter).
We, at Free Republic, are prepared to move heaven and earth to help Ms. Magouirk, but we need more information. We especially need to know whether or not the matter has already been settled and whether or not it was in favor of Ms. Magouirk's stated wishes. After all, if her feeding tube has already been reinserted, then we have no need to "call in the calvary".
Thank you for your time and effort in this matter. I look forward to hearing from you.
lol
good ltr; keep us posted (I know you will).
I read it three times, I thought for sure I just wasn't comprehending the words.
Ethical medicine, illness, disease treatment and dying must be discussed.
Wait a minute. How did I miss that in your article?
Are you telling me that nursing homes and hospices buy the life insurance policies of their patients and sell them to investors, or invest it themselves?
Talk about a conflict of interest!
We need a list of media contacts. Somebody please post it, and ping everyone to it.
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You never mentioned that you write fiction.
Turn to us, and hope they haven't succeeded in silencing us.
Are you telling me that nursing homes and hospices buy the life insurance policies of their patients and sell them to investors, or invest it themselves?
Talk about a conflict of interest!
It's also a motive for murder.
And then search out who is BOD, Partners and affiliates.
It is a huge tangled mess.
From the article -
Gaddy only had a financial power of attorney
Granddaughter knows all about Grandma's finances, that's for sure.
It's one thing to express such a "presumptuous sentiment" re a person whose wishes have never been clearly expressed anywhere. It's a completely different thing to express them (as is alleged to have been done in this case) re a person who has gone to the trouble of executing a living will, and spelled out very different criteria.
However, I tend to think this story in its present form is a hoax, or a well-intentioned embellishment of a true story. Hospices don't like to get sued, nor do their insurers sit quietly by in situations like this. If there isn't a clear court order to withhold nourishment, and there is reasonable doubt as to the legal authority of the granddaughter in question to be making medical decisions for the patient, the hospice would stick the tube back in fast, and wait for a definitive decision from a court.
Pray for his soul. ;-)
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