http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/dehydration/ en-us Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:51:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963485/posts A Delaware woman has become the next Terri Schiavo as her parents engage in a massive legal and philosophical debate about whether to subject her to euthanasia. Richardson is a 23-year-old woman who overdosed on heroin in August 2006 while she was three months pregnant with a baby girl. Doctors kept Lauren on life support until she delivered her baby in February 2007. Shortly thereafter, her parents began a fight that is reminiscent of the battle over Terri's life and death. As in the Terri Schiavo case, physicians have been quick to label Lauren as having a persistent vegetative state... LifeNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1963485/posts#comment Fri, 1 Feb 2008 22:51:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971634/posts A convicted Nazi war criminal arrived in Italy yesterday to start a life sentence imposed in his absence for the murder and torture of prisoners in the final year of the Second World War. Michael Seifert, 83, a Ukraine-born Canadian citizen dubbed the "Beast of Bolzano", has lived in Canada since 1951. He had been fighting extradition for eight years. The former SS corporal was a guard at a prison camp in Bolzano, northern Italy - used as a transit point for Jews, Italian resistance fighters and others - in 1944 and 1945. An Italian military tribunal convicted him in... Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1971634/posts#comment Sun, 17 Feb 2008 00:59:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791162/posts Liza Biggers blinked back tears and gently patted her brother Ethan's hand as he lay in his hospital bed, finally wearing the Purple Heart he earned in Iraq. Ethan's family had held off on the medal ceremony, hoping he would emerge from his year-long coma. When that didn't happen, his 22-year-old twin, Matt, made a phone call to make sure he received the award before he died. Last Sunday's private ceremony was a poignant moment in a tumultuous journey that began the day Army Spc. Ethan Biggers was critically wounded in Iraq. Biggers' family stopped trying to keep him alive... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1791162/posts#comment Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:23:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924613/posts Fred Thompson will pick up the support of the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC) tomorrow, according to two Republicans familar with the decision. For a candidate who came up empty-handed last week when three prominent Christian conservatives endorsed GOP hopefuls and is falling in both national and early state polls, the move comes at a critical time. NRLC is the most prominent anti-abortion group in the country, with affiliates in all 50 states and over 3,000 local chapters. A spokesperson for the organization declined to comment on their endorsement decision, but Thompson was likely rewarded for his strong pro-life... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1924613/posts#comment Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:52:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908372/posts Milan, Italy (LifeNews.com) -- An Italian court has denied a request by a disabled woman's father to remove her feeding tube and authorize her death by starvation and dehydration. Eluana Englaro has been a coma for 15 years after an automobile accident seriously injured her and, this year, her father asked a Milan court for permission to remove her feeding tube. This isn't the first time Englaro's case had been in court. In April 2005, the Italian Supreme Court confirmed a lower court ruling to keep her feeding tube in place. That case had also been brought by Englaro's father,... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1908372/posts#comment Mon, 8 Oct 2007 22:40:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903391/posts PHILADELPHIA, PA, September 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As is the custom in the United States, the first Sunday of October will be honored by US Catholics as Respect Life Sunday.  In honor of this, Cardinal Justin Rigali, the Chairman of the Committee for Pro-Life Activities of the United States' Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has issued a statement to be made available at all parishes nationwide.  The statement calls for US Catholics to "again pray for - and renew their resolve to bring about - a culture of life and an end to the killing of innocent human beings, especially... Life Site http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903391/posts#comment Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:44:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897251/posts Pope Rules Patients in Permanent Vegetative State May Not be Denied Artificial Nutrition and Hydration Response to certain questions raised by US Conference of Catholic Bishops concerning artificial nutrition and hydration By John-Henry Westen VATICAN CITY, September 14, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - In most hospitals in North America, families of patients in permanent vegetative state are asked if they wish their family member to have their artificial feeding tube removed. According to a definitive ruling by the Vatican made public today, the withdrawal of artificial nutrition and hydration from such patients is immoral. The ruling from the Vatican's Congregation for the... LifeSiteNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897251/posts#comment Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:37:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875645/posts Brain-Damaged Man "Awakened" After Six Years of Semi-Consciousness By Elizabeth O'Brien NEW YORK, August 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A severely brain-damaged man who was in a minimally conscious state for six years has recently regained new levels of awareness and physical capabilities after receiving electrical brain implants. The unnamed 38-year old man had his head repeatedly kicked during a mugging in 1999 and was left unable to talk or move properly. In addition, he was kept alive on a feeding tube.In a study led by Dr. Nicholas Schiff of Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University in New York, researchers... LifeSiteNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1875645/posts#comment Fri, 3 Aug 2007 06:41:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1871597/posts CLEARWATER, FL, July 25, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A North Country Gazette exclusive alleges, with evidence, that Michael Schiavo, who ordered the starvation of his wife Terry Schiavo in 2005, has a history of hostility towards co-workers, stalking women, vindictiveness and general unprofessional behavior. Last year, the Gazetter reports, Schiavo was involved in a complex tangle of accusations against co-workers at the Pinellas County Jail. The first alleged incident occurred on July 31, when co-worker Diane Cross illegally gave prescription medication, a muscle relaxant called Robaxin, to nursing supervisor David Richardson in order to alleviate his extreme back pain. Schiavo did... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1871597/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:10:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864595/posts PEACHTREE CITY, Georgia, July 11, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Marine candidate who nearly drowned four years ago in boot-camp met his death after his family agreed to let doctors remove his feeding tube. "He smiled all week [since the tube was removed]. It was the first time. He seemed so happy, not in pain," his mother, Melia Isaac said of her son, who had been reduced to a comatose or minimal conscious state. "I'm going to wonder for the rest of my life if I did the right thing. But I believe I did. He didn't have much of a... LifeSiteNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1864595/posts#comment Thu, 12 Jul 2007 03:13:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856772/posts Springfield, FL (LifeNews.com) -- The family of Terri Schiavo could have called it a day after Terri was starved and dehydrated to death by her former husband over a two week period. They endured constant international news coverage and waged a discouraging battle in the courts that left their daughter and sister with no hope. Instead, Terri's parents Bob and Mary, brother Bobby and sister Suzanne pressed on. Not wanting the same fate to befall other disabled patients, they reworked the foundation they created to help Terri and organized it to assist other incapacitated or minimally conscious patients. Since they... Life News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1856772/posts#comment Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:15:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845414/posts A wilderness-survival school is allowing campers to carry a 32-ounce water bottle instead of a smaller cup during a grueling course in southern Utah, a change from last year when a New Jersey man died of dehydration. "They're allowed to carry them and drink as they go," said Andrew Wright, an attorney for the Boulder Outdoor Survival School, known as BOSS. Dave Buschow, 29, collapsed and died on the second day of a 28-day expedition in the searing heat of the Utah desert in July 2006. Participants were given a 24-ounce cup and told to drink water only from natural... Salt Lake Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1845414/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jun 2007 21:44:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829781/posts Family sues survival school after death of fit 29-year-old on wilderness course"Dave is dead." The words came at the end of the second day of what was supposed to be a character-forming experience, a chance for 12 people to "experience the wilderness to the fullest". Instead, the trek through the mountains and desert of Utah in the mid-western US left David Buschow, a fit 29-year-old US air force veteran and security guard from New York dehydrated and hallucinating, his eyes bulging and tongue swollen. Less than 10 hours after setting off from the group's overnight camp on the second day,... Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829781/posts#comment Mon, 7 May 2007 20:51:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827445/posts BOULDER, Utah - By Day 2 in the blazing Utah desert, Dave Buschow was in bad shape. Pale, wracked by cramps, his speech slurred, the 29-year-old New Jersey man was desperate for water and hallucinating so badly he mistook a tree for a person. After going roughly 10 hours without a drink in the 100-degree heat, he finally dropped dead of thirst, face down in the dirt, less than 100 yards from the goal: a cave with a pool of water. But Buschow was no solitary soul, lost and alone in the desert. He and 11 other hikers from various... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827445/posts#comment Wed, 2 May 2007 22:45:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705867/posts TORONTO, September 20, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At last week’s Toronto conference of the international Right to Die movement, speakers laid out the course of the movement’s strategy for legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide around the world. Of particular note is the emphasis on the “right” to be starved and dehydrated to death, especially for patients suffering from dementia or cognitive disabilities. Seeing a “catch-22” in the dementia and euthanasia problem, the Right to Die movement says the problem is that some, while unwilling “to end life prematurely,” know that “it requires mental competence to take personal responsibility for choosing... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1705867/posts#comment Thu, 21 Sep 2006 20:51:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1703965/posts ***This is a story about a baby born at 23 weeks*** Today Emmie-Rose’s Hospital has hit a major blow against us. I believe some of the staff believe we are not providing the correct care for her and had us meet with the “Ethics” committee. At most hospitals the Ethics committee is usually made up of staff, social workers, clergy, and parents of other children. We had a room full of the staff, 1 surgeon, 2 social workers, and Stephanie and I. Let’s just stack all the cards against us. After wasting 2 hours going over the issues, it is... http://23weeks.blogspot.com/2006/09/sep-8-major-blow-to-patient-care.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1703965/posts#comment Tue, 19 Sep 2006 02:45:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680111/posts   NORFOLK, U.K., August 8, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – At the same time that the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is being investigated for allegedly starving and dehydrating a woman to death in 2003, the wife of a former patient treated on the same ward is calling for another investigation into the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of her husband. Kate Speed claims that although her husband’s death certificate states that he died from pneumonia, that in fact he died because of a hospital-ordered dehydration, an ultimately fatal measure that neither she nor her husband approved. “The whole of my husband’s... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1680111/posts#comment Tue, 8 Aug 2006 22:56:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1675381/posts Charlie Crist Let My Daughter Die by Robert Schindler, Sr. Posted Jul 31, 2006 As most Americans know, on March 31, 2005, my daughter, Terri Schindler Schiavo died of starvation and thirst after having her feeding tube removed by court order. The sad chain of events that concluded with Terri’s death ignited a media firestorm nationally and internationally. What few saw or heard was the callous inaction of aspiring governor Charlie Crist. Florida Atty. Gen. Charlie Crist let my daughter die. He had it within his authority to save her life, but he turned a blind eye to her suffering.... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1675381/posts#comment Mon, 31 Jul 2006 23:58:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1612744/posts THE explosive story of Terri Schiavo, a brain-damaged woman who became caught in the middle of a US battle over the right to die, could become a Hollywood movie, industry reports said. A year after Schiavo died following the removal of her feeding tube, Hollywood has bought the rights to make a movie from husband Michael Schiavo's book Terri: The Truth, Daily Variety said. Schiavo died in March last year after a bitter and divisive years-long battle between Michael Schiavo and Terri Schiavo's parents over whether she should be removed her from life support. The family feud exploded into a... Herald Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1612744/posts#comment Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:26:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1604425/posts The end of this month marks the anniversary of the judicially-ordered killing of Terri Schiavo, age 41, carried out at the behest of her husband who was living with another woman and his Scientologist lawyer. She was not brain-dead. She could breathe on her own. Yet despite the best efforts of Terri's family and the pro-life and disability-rights communities, the courts ordered Terri Schiavo to be killed by dehydration. Rush Limbaugh described the day as "the day our country hit rock bottom." One year later, it is still an apt description. Terri Schiavo left no written instructions nor a living... Freedom News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1604425/posts#comment Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:47:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544691/posts Article Last Updated: 12/19/2005 08:18 AM a denver post special report Letting go: Dylan's last days Two parents face an agonizing test of faith and love for their son By Kevin Simpson Denver Post Staff Writer DenverPost.com Dave Walborn lifted his son upright, all 32 pounds of him, slipped one hand behind his lolling head and gazed into the open but vacant blue eyes. He spoke out loud the words that would move him and the boy's mother, Kerri Bruning, one step closer to an excruciating decision. "Dylan, it's OK if you want to go," he said. "I don't want... The Denver Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544691/posts#comment Wed, 21 Dec 2005 16:04:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543758/posts A self verifying man sits astride the world, surveys all he can see, and pronounces it good. This is a terrifying thing because the man doing it is none other than Judge George Greer of Florida and the thing he was pronouncing good was the excruciatingly legal murder of one Terri Schindler, formerly Terri Schiavo. We have to grasp this. A tin-pot, swamp water embarrassment from the brackish backwater of former jurisprudence pronounced to both houses of the Congress of the United States of America that their subpoenas weren't worth a damned thing and that he, the new godhead, had... Renew America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1543758/posts#comment Tue, 20 Dec 2005 04:26:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1515488/posts Family members are investigating what they consider to be suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a nursing home patient at the center of a life and death tug-of-war reminiscent of the Terri Schiavo tragedy. Seventy-nine-year-old Jimmy Chambers died in the early morning hours of Oct. 24 after the tracheotomy tubes that deliver oxygen from a ventilator to a hole in his neck became unhooked. Family members were told Chambers, a resident of the Anne Maria Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in North Augusta, S.C., apparently pulled the interlocking tubes apart. "We're having it investigated. We're just incredulous," Chambers' daughter, Deanna Potter,... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1515488/posts#comment Fri, 4 Nov 2005 11:24:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1506323/posts He says he wants to live. But his wife, caregivers and South Carolina state officials are so focused on carrying out a decade-old, out-of-state living will that 79-year-old Jimmy Chambers can't get a word in edgewise. That's the account of 10 of Chambers's children and their spouses who signed sworn affidavits in an attempt to block their mother from removing his life-sustaining ventilator, which would cause his death. It's a case that's reminiscent of the Terri Schiavo controversy which captured the attention of millions around the world, in which a fault line opened up in the middle of a formerly... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1506323/posts#comment Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:52:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1511869/posts by Fr. Frank Pavone Other Articles by Fr. Frank Pavone Blessing the Grave 10/29/05 I recently had the privilege of blessing the grave of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, who was murdered on March 31, 2005 by dehydration. Her grave is not far from the place where she died, and where people from around the world had gathered to protest and pray. Those who visit the gravestone, however, will notice something highly unusual. While on most graves there is an inscription of two dates — when the person was born and when he or she died — on Terri's there are three. Here's exactly... CatholicExchange.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1511869/posts#comment Sun, 30 Oct 2005 03:37:47 GMT