This story seems too far out to be true, but if it is, delay in action could be horrible. So I am going to blog it.
During the whole Terri Schiavo thing, the media emphasized the importance of having living wills to make sure YOUR will was done.
But despite having a living will saying she wants food and water if she were in a coma, and despite NOT being in a coma, a Judge (that's right, the great ever loving judiciary) has ordered a woman to die of thirst.
Mae Magouirk was neither terminally ill, comatose nor in a "vegetative state," when Hospice-LaGrange accepted her as a patient about two weeks ago upon the request of her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy, 36, an elementary school teacher.Also upon Gaddy's request and without prior legal authority, since March 28 Hospice-LaGrange has denied Magouirk normal nourishment or fluids via a feeding tube through her nose or fluids via an IV. She has been kept sedated with morphine and ativan, a powerful tranquillizer.
Her nephew, Ken Mullinax, told WorldNetDaily that although Magouirk is given morphine and ativan, she has not received any medication to keep her eyes lubricated during her forced dehydration.
"They haven't given her anything like that for two weeks," said Mullinax. "She can't produce tears."
Indeed, the Terri Shiavo has set into motion the right to kill your elders if they are no longer helpful around the house. I guess cashing in her Social Security checks is no longer cost effective.
Tell everyone you know.
Posted by psugrad98 at April 8, 2005 11:02 AM
