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Rdtf
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 Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 1:11 am Post subject: 1998:Wife Wins Fight to Have Husband's Feeding Tube Removed |
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I found this similar case to Schiavo's while doing a search. Horrifying!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/10/01/national/main18860.shtml
| Quote: | December 13, 1999 05:18:45 The Early Show CBS Evening News
(CBS) Gov. Jim Gilmore's frantic bid to prevent the wife of a comatose man from removing the feeding tube that has kept him alive for 3 1/2 years was rejected by a judge early Thursday.
Michele Finn is now free to withhold food and water from Hugh Finn, allowing him to die. The family said it would not announce when the tube is removed, and no one at the nursing home where Finn lives would say whether it had happened.
Finn, a 44-year-old former Louisville, Ky., television news anchor, ruptured his aorta in a traffic accident in March 1995, depriving his brain of oxygen and leaving him unable to eat, care for himself, or communicate.
In June, his wife told the family she wanted to remove her husband's feeding tube. She said her husband had told her that he would not wish to live in such a condition.
In a dramatic clash over the right to die, Gilmore went to court Wednesday night to stop Mrs. Finn from removing the tube. State attorneys filed their motion little more than an hour before the tube could legally have been removed.
Under Virginia law, life-sustaining treatment may be stopped if a person is in a persistent vegetative state. Doctors have said that is the condition Finn is in, while Gilmore, approached by other relatives of the former newscaster, contends that he is not.
Assistant Attorney General William Hurd argued that removing the tube would amount to euthanasia, but Prince William Circuit Judge Frank Hoss Jr. disagreed in rejecting the state's request.
Hoss said he believes Virginia law allows withholding food and water.
"It merely permits the natural process of dying," he said. "It does not relate to mercy killing or euthanasia."
Meanwhile, protesters gathered outside Finn's nursing home to pray for him, reports Correspondent Mark Ladato of CBS Affiliate WUSA-TV in Washington. Some said that Finn should be allowed to pass away. Others, including a Catholic group, stood to condemn Mrs. Finn's request.
"That's playing God," one protester said. "They say somebody is alive, but it's not convenient for us to take care of him."
Finn's doctor says he has been in the same condition since his car accident, but some family members insist at times Finn has communicated with those around him, and still harbors hope of recovery.
Mrs. Finn expressed outrage at Gilmore's intervention.
"I am more than outraged by the governor and delegate marshal for completely overlooking what the law and the statute is in this state and putting me through sheer hell. I would like it if they would stop," Mrs. Finn said.
The state's top health official contacted members of Finn's family Wednesday evening and asked them to reconsider whether the state should intervene. Hours earlier, the state gave Finn's family a report confirming the diagnosis that Finn is in a persistent vegetative state.
The case became more complicated on Sept. 18 when a nurse employed by the state isited Finn and filed a report saying he told her "Hi" and smoothed his hair during the hour and 15 minutes she watched him.
Mrs. Finn and her attorney contended the nurse was mistaken, that Finn does not really react but simply makes guttural noises and movements.
Mrs. Finn's decision to remove the tube caused a split in the family.
John Finn, Hugh Finn's brother, went to court to stop her. But Hoss ruled Aug. 31 that Mrs. Finn would remain her husband's guardian and had the right to remove the tube. Hoss set a Sept. 30 deadline for appealing his ruling.
John Finn initially said he planned to take the case to the Virginia Supreme Court. But on Monday, the family agreed to end their legal dispute, leaving Finn's wife free to remove the tube when the appeal deadline expired.
Lawyers for the state were to meet Thursday with Gilmore to discuss options for appealing.
Copyright 1998 CBS Worldwide Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report. |
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LewWaters
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When does the left's new mantra become Sieg Heil?
No matter what, as far as I'm concerned, depriving anyone of nutrition is not a natural method of death.
We can expect to see more and more of this now. What's most shameful, at least to me, is how courts are deciding feeding tubes are now artifical life support.
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I suppose that a plate, bowl and a cup are artificial means of delivering nutrients and water now. They aren't any different than a feeding tube. All are man made utensils.
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When "Food & Water" became "artificial" in the "LAW" of Florida!
| Quote: | The strange incestuous politics of Pinellas County, FL detailed here:
The Hapless Misadventures of the Pinellas County Court System keeps getting stinkier and stinkier and scarier and scarier. Michael Schiavo's attorney George Felos took his case and then filed the petition to introduce HB 2131 in 1999. Then the law in Tallahassee gets changed.
Then the Schiavo case gets heard. In that order.
In April 1999 - House Bill 2131 was introduced in the Florida legislature by the Florida Elder Affairs & Long-Term Care Committee to amend Section 765 (Civil Rights) of the Florida Statutes. The amendments to Section 765.101 were the legal definition of "life prolonging procedures" to add: "INCLUDING ARTIFICIALLY PROVIDED SUSTENENCE AND HYDRATION, WHICH SUSTAINS, RESTORES, OR SUPPLANTS A SPONTANEOUS VITAL FUNCTION". It becomes law on October 1, 1999.
Who lobbied for changing the law to make food and water be defined as "artificial" life support in 1999?
HB 2131 GENERAL BILL by Elder Affairs & Long-Term Care (HFC); Argenziano; (CO-SPONSORS) Heyman; Sobel; Reddick; Fiorentino; Bilirakis; Littlefield; Kosmas; Bitner; Jacobs; Levine; Bloom.
David Allen contacted the Clerk of The Florida House and was informed that "Bilirakis" was Representative "Gus Michael Bilirakis" (terms 1998 - 2000 and 2001 - 2003).
Note that the hospice where Terri Schiavo has been held is operated by Suncoast Hospice. Rep. Gus Michael Bilirakis lists himself on the Suncoast Hospice Board of Directors - along with George Felos who filed the suit in the summer of 1998 to withdraw food and water form Terri Schiavo. Who else has also been on that Board?
And here:
Judges are impartial, right? Not Judge George Greer, the judge that has ordered Terri Schiavo executed by starvation and dehydration, twice.
Our good ole boy judge has worked side by side as county commissioner with Barbara Sheen Todd (county commissioner) for eight years. Barbara Sheen Todd is on the board of, you guessed it, the hospice where Terri Schiavo is kept prisoner by her husband, Michael Schiavo, who lives with another woman that he has two children with.
Also, Judge Greer's fellow judge, Judge John Lenderman is the brother of Martha Lenderman, also on the, you got it, the same hospice board.
Our fine judge accepted as the basis of his rulings, the questionable testimony of Michael Schiavo that Terri would wish to be killed, yet Michael never stated this until after he had received the 1.2 million dollar settlement during which time he portrayed himself as a loving husband that just wanted to bring his wife home and take care of her.
The judge also accepted as the basis of his rulings, the "opinion" of a third doctor who is the brother of a close associate of George Felos, Michael Schiavo's right-to-kill attorney, and very significantly, former Chairman of, you got it again, the same hospice board, Hospice of the Florida Suncoast, which operates Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida.
Still have some hair left? Let's see what we can do about that!
Mary Laybak, CEO of Woodside Hospice has direct ties to Euthanasia Society of America and Hemlock for Hospice, an organization that seeks to accelerate the dying process. Federal funds may not be used for these purposes.
The Hospice is a federally funded program designed for terminally ill and those whose death is eminent. Terri has been in Woodside Hospice illegally for three years under Medicaid payments, for free, courtesy of, yep, George Felos. Felos combined and conspired with Michael Schiavo to arrange for Terri's "free" stay at Hospice Woodside as part of an "exit protocol" designed to advance Felos' self-perceived messianic mission of "helping" incapacitated people to die by categorizing them as "terminal," warehousing them, and depriving them of therapy and rehabilitation services.
US Dept of Health and Human Services is currently trying to collect $14.8 million from Florida Suncoast Hospice, owed to them since 1997. The squeaki-clean(not) Hospice is accused of patient brokering and several lawsuits filed by Attorney Jonathan Alpert are pending.
From what I gather, it appears that the feeding tube was used for Terri because it was convenient for the hospice and, more importantly, because it would allow the death attorney to then make the case that Terri should be starved because she was now being kept alive "artificially." Brilliant.
I seriously doubt that Terri expressed when she was healthy that, if injured, she wanted to unnecessarily be put on a pseudo-artificial means of sustinence and deprived of tasty puddings and jello so that the deprivation could then be used as "proof" that she should be killed.
Meanwhile, the MSManipulated mob is being push-polled into wanting Terri to starve. I doubt many "she should starve" respondents have read this. And they didn't see this. |
http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2005_03_20.html#004121
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