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.
I think that Terri was actually a "test run" for future death panels. The media was constantly taking polls to see which line of BS the public seemed to be swallowing.
The sheriff's dept there was fully lined up against Terri and her supporters, and I remember a deputy actually came and said something to us about staying back from the hospital and not trying to help anybody who arrived to bring her out. They were deadly serious about this.
The sheriff there at that time was a real crony of the Scientologists and also of the judge (Greene?) who was absolutely dedicated to killing Terri, and there had been a lot of corruption in his office.
Last time I was in the hospital, I didn’t eat for ten days. Of course, I was conscious, and they fed me intravenously, but man, when they finally let me eat, I discoverd how GOOD Jell-o actually is.
Why would scientologists want her dead? I know they’re a messed up group, but what was their interest in Terri dying?
http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=127430
Quotes from that article:
...Rohrersville resident Daniel Sanger has been hospitalized since suffering brain damage after a heart attack in July....On Sunday, hospital staff members removed his feeding tube with the permission of Sanger's wife, Leta Sanger, who said doctors told her the end result would be the same either way.
..."They said the result would be the same even with the feeding tube," Leta Sanger told The Frederick News-Post on Friday.
..."He can barely put two words together," she said. "He can't carry on a conversation."
I thought Mikey Shyster was going to spearhead a movement to do something very similar. But we never hear about him any more, while Terri themed support groups keep popping up from time to time. Did Mikey just slink off into the dark hole he deserved?
Starve and thirst somebody for six days and “the result would be the same” as though they hadn’t? Say what? Maybe it wouldn’t be much more either but the poor schmoe never had a chance to show it.
One might at least want to accompany it with a more complete advance medical directive.
Aren’t they ardent reincarnationists? Mikey wasn’t a Scientologist, and at least nominally Greer was a Baptist, but it would seem that they’d get no static from a religious group eager to see Terri pass on to a future incarnation in which she might eventually be clear of whatever celestial gunk was allegedly oppressing her.
It seems unlikely to me that any medical professional would make that statement. People with brain damage often live a long time, and living is not quite the same result as dying.
This quote also got my attention:
"This gentleman made a clear statement to a doctor and his mother -- 'I want to live,'" Cox said.
Then why didn't that doctor intervene? Has the doctor confirmed that he heard Sanger's statement?
And that entire kabal that ran with him and helped him murder Terri also can still creep me out when I think of them. Bad people. I hope karma nails them, as well. I don't know what the slob is doing. Nor do I care. He sucked off of literal blood money and had a fine time killing Terri.
Just to let you all know - Jeb Bush had NO intention of saving her - HE signed into law a person considered vegatative could have food and water withdrawn from them. HE WAS VERY COMPLICIT IN THIS ATROCITY, THIS MURDER!!!
Thank you for the information about Jeb Bush. I also was under the strong impression that he had caved into the side of death. There was information out there that made it look so. Maybe there was a concerted effort to make it seem like he caved when he didn’t. On FR, from my limited outlook, I think, that is if I am remembering right, I was left with the impression that he had caved. Freepers in general are usually good at giving out correct info. I wonder how this got turned around, at least from my experience?
Whether or not one or both sides are embellishing their story, God knows. If the doctor who witnessed the gentleman’s statement didn’t get a note about it into the gentleman’s medical record, or the statement was ambiguous e.g. “I want to live — please do what my wife says,” then trouble could easily ensue. Anyhow, I hope the fellow recovers his senses and presses his wife for an explanation.
“A victim of forced dehydration/starvation has been saved!”
Thank you dear God!
“In fact most of the American people seemed to want her dead.”
That’s because most Americans didn’t hear the entire story.
“The sheriff’s dept there was fully lined up against Terri and her supporters, ..”
Why didn’t Jeb or George Bush use an Executive Order?
The Scientologists have some sort of ritual or practice where they “drive out impurities” by withholding food and water. Not that long before the Schiavo case, they had forcibly done this to a young woman, who died from this “cure.”
First words he should say, when he gets home, is "I want a divorce."
Maryland "Freak State" PING!
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