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April 08, 2005
Just When You Thought It Couldn't Get Worse......Mae Magouirk
This is another appalling story that everyone, no matter what side of the issue you think you are on, should read. Keep an open mind and then go and rip up all those living wills you had drawn up……….they are worthless.
Read this from Hyscience………it’s an interesting site.
Posted by ChristmasGhost at April 8, 2005 07:20 PM
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maggie4life...thank you for the update maggie. please let me know any new info you get. what will it take for mae to be really safe from her granddaughter?
Posted by: christmasghost at April 10, 2005 11:20 AM
I found your site due to reading old comments on Hyscience. You have some interesting material here.
Here is an update on Mae. Thankfully, Mae has been removed from the Hospice.
If you read through the facts that we have on this case, then I think that a few kudos are due to Carol Todd at that Hospice because her alertness over the fact that Beth Gaddy did not have the power to make medical decisions is how the other families found out about her intentions. It was Carol who stood by and started up the hydration again, only to have Beth yank it out later. The judge also deserves kudos and not condemnation. He has stated that he is pro-life. He issued a document that gave Beth Gaddy limited power as a guardian and it stated that she was to ensure that her grandmother had the basic necessities including food and water.
According to Ken the battle is not over yet with Beth Gaddy. He has stated that the family in Alabama want to care for Mae.
Posted by: Maggie4life at April 10, 2005 01:16 AM
I found this article on Michele Malkins site, 23 yr old shot in the eye, left in a PVS, shooter gets a $500.00 fine and community service. Wife divorces victim and lets mom take custody of him, for 19 years! She did have a DNR order.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3125609
Posted by: chardonnay at April 9, 2005 09:15 AM
It's funny you should mention that movie...because that's what all of this was starting to remind me of. Between the brain sales from the King County ME's office and the people being starved to death....what's next?
Soylent Green?
Seriously, anyone that isn't very disturbed by the story of Mae has lost their humanity somewhere along the way.........
Posted by: christmasghost at April 9, 2005 01:05 AM
Ghost, Remember the 1978 movie COMA?
A feisty, feminist intern uncovers a medical conspiracy in this icy thriller about mysterious goings-on at Boston Memorial Hospital. When her best friend and aerobics partner, Nancy Greenly (Lois Chiles), emerges in a vegetative state from a routine abortion, Dr. Susan Wheeler (Genevieve Bujold) does some digging and
discovers an overabundance of anesthesia-induced comas among otherwise healthy young patients.
As Susan continues her crusade, the paper trail leads to the Jefferson Institute, a mysterious, experimental facility in which vegetative patients are stored en masse, suspended from the ceiling by wires threaded through their long bones, in order to reduce the cost of long-term care.
http://www.vh1.com/movies/movie/6778/plot.jhtml
Posted by: chardonnay at April 8, 2005 11:09 PM
Grandma is old and I'll bet she has assets............just a wild guess.
So where are all the people that said it was okay to do this to Terri because she wasn't aware[neither are most REALLY liberal voters but I digress....] and that it would NEVER happen to someone like Mae.Hmmm????
Wrong.
Posted by: christmasghost at April 8, 2005 09:55 PM
SHOCK & AWE
The Schiavo case was the shock and Magouirk is the awe. Are we suppose to eventually become numb to these extreme cases? Is picking and choosing who shall live or die really a family matter? Terri was/wasn't PVS, awe who cares, would you wanna live like that? Pull the plug. Grandma is old? Or does grandma have assets?
Posted by: chardonnay at April 8, 2005 09:31 PM
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