Posted on 10/22/2011 1:35:56 PM PDT by wagglebee
FREDERICK, Md. — A 55-year-old Maryland man who became temporarily unconscious after suffering a heart attack and a seizure has been saved from being starved to death after an ADF-allied attorney obtained an order in state court on behalf of the man’s mother and brother. The man, Daniel Sanger, is now responding to hospital staff after going six days without food and water.
Although Sanger told his doctor and his mother “I want to live” before he went unconscious, Frederick Memorial Hospital removed the public-assistance patient from life-giving food, water, and nutrients on Friday with the permission of his wife.
“Everyone deserves a chance to recover,” said ADF Legal Counsel Matt Bowman. “There is no question that Daniel expressly stated his desire to live, and yet he was denied the food and water he needed to survive. His wishes should have been followed. ADF sees far too many situations involving hasty decisions to pull the plug on a human life.”
“The court has done the right thing in granting our request to have Daniel’s food and hydration restored,” said Sanger’s legal counsel Daniel Cox, one of nearly 2,100 attorneys in the ADF alliance. “We are asking the court to award temporary decision-making authority to Daniel’s mother and brother.”
Cox, who heads The Cox Law Center, LLC, filed a motion in Frederick County Circuit Court Wednesday to force the hospital to resume sending life-giving nutrients to Sanger through his feeding tube. The motion, filed in Sanger v. Rafiq, also requested that Sanger’s mother, Phyllis Sanger, and his brother, Mark Sanger, be awarded temporary custody instead of his wife, Leta Sanger, who went against her husband’s express wishes to remain alive.
Chief Judge Peter Krauser, of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals, responded by issuing an order Wednesday to provide immediate water and nutrition to Sanger pending the outcome of a hearing that was held Thursday. At that hearing, Frederick County Circuit Judge Theresa Adams issued a temporary restraining order instructing Frederick Memorial Hospital to provide life-sustaining nutrition to Sanger until the completion of a trial set for Wednesday at 9 a.m. EDT at the Frederick County Circuit Court at 100 W. Patrick St.
The culture of death goes out of their way to find someone to agree to their murderous agenda.
A victim of forced dehydration/starvation has been saved!
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Ah so... Like Teri Schiavo, if the spouse wants you dead, you’re dead. Good thing for him his mom was still alive and kicking.
Someone needs to go to prison....
If the spouse is pushing for his quick death, there must be INSURANCE awaiting.
This is a Schiavo like situation, except in this case there isn’t any controversy about whether the patient made his wishes clear (and those wishes were to remain alive). Seems to me that even from a purely secular point of view there are severe ethics problems with getting his wife to trump his wishes, especially this quickly. This is the leading edge of Obamacare’s death panels.
Well...that marriage is finished. He should get as far away from that woman as possible.
Temporarily as in the case of Terri Schindler. Ultimately, the spouse will kill him if she can. Remember how Jebbie Bush was first strong in adversity and then caved to allow Terri to be killed.
Could be pecuniary, could be she hates his guts.
Bush did everything he could except turn up at the hospital with a gun in his hand. It was the GOP controlled State legislature that voted down the special bill he had had written just to save her, and the state and federal judges who turned down every appeal.
And Lynch, the corrupt, gay, evil bishop of the diocese, who should have been removed immediately, did not support Bush (a Catholic) and in fact forbade the priests in the diocese to visit Terri or bring her Communion. This was because they were afraid that it would be apparent that she could indeed take nourishment. A priest from outside (possibly Fr Pavone?) brought her Communion but I’m not sure he was allowed to give it to her.
Maybe Bush should have just charged in there and dragged her out, but I can tell you one disgraceful fact: there was no public support for saving her. I was there the day before she died, keeping vigil. It was thought that a huge group of people would show up, but sadly, the press outnumbered us. They had tents and cameras set up, and there we were, probably only about 50 people, mostly from out of state Evangelical and Catholic groups, trudging back and forth and praying under the amused eyes of the press.
Did you manage to make it to the vigil?
This is truly incredible. I hope he makes it out of the hospital.
my exact thoughts. Would like to introduce this man’s wife to that monster, michael schiavo...they could start an organization supporting cruel folks who want to get rid of their spouses regardless of the spouses wishes.
IIRC Father Pavone was allowed to give Terri the Eucharist (a crumb-sized amount) and administer Last Rites.
God bless you, livius. What you did then for Terri somehow may have been an assist, in the heavenlies even in this instance. God is outside time and space and perhaps your prayers were also, and fell in this case to someone else.
Very nice story of yours, I must say.
Nothing new I nearly stave to death every time I was EVER in the hospital!
It sounds like Leta only married Daniel so she could have the name Sanger. She should be locked in a room with Michael Schiavo, with a partition between them. Their hands should be drawn through holes in the partition, and chained, so that they can reach each other’s mouths, but not their own. They can each feed the other, but not themselves. Let them each depend on their doppelgänger for sustenance, and see how fast they starve to death.
I’d rather go off and die in the woods someplace than be around that situation.
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