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Javona update...

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The fight between a mother and father over the fate of their comatose 16-year-old daughter will move to the courtroom on Monday.

The parents, who are estranged and had never married, disagree over whether life support for Javona Peters should be discontinued. Both will seek guardianship rights at a hearing before Judge Edgar Walker at Bronx Supreme Court.

Javona, who has been unresponsive since an operation three months ago at Montefiore Medical Center, was transferred from Montefiore to the renowned Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston on Monday.

"Montefiore told me there was nothing more they could do for her and wanted her moved to a nursing home, a permanent setting," said the teen's mother, Janet Joseph of Providence, R.I.

Teams of doctors at Spaulding are performing extensive tests to determine the extent of Javona's brain function and her chances for any recovery, Joseph said........

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Javona's father, Leonard Peters of Mount Vernon, has so far resisted Joseph's desire to disconnect feeding and breathing tubes and "let her go in peace."

Battle over coma teen goes to court

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Dr. Death is not dead enuf yet...

Conflicting reports have him now speaking back at the University of Florida (FU) this month,

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Location: Stephen C. O'Connell Center
Date and Time: 1/15/2008 8:00:00 PM
Dr. Jack Kevorkian, is an advocate for the legalization of assisted suicide

Details: Dr. Kevorkian, an advocate for the legalization of assisted suicide, will speak at the O'Connell Center at 8 p.m. Free tickets are required and are available at the University Box Office. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. for students with Gator 1 cards at Gate 2 and for the general public at 7 p.m. Seating is on a first come, first serve basis. No backpacks will be allowed. Following Kevorkian's speech, a panel discussion will be held with UF faculty members from disciplines including law, medicine and philosophy. Submissions for the post show Question & Answer session can be submitted to accentstaff@sg.ufl.edu.

Accent Speaker Series: Dr. Jack Kevorkian

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ReL Javona. A permanent setting... Is that in a nice nursing home at the hospital's expense or the local cemetery?

Mom makes permanent setting sound so negative. It doesn't have to be a bad thing. You can bet they are swarming w/activist judges up there and Spitzer won't save her.

We better pray cuz Mom condemns Javona by going to court. Wake up, mom. She's the one who's asleep.