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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 and wannabe murderess.
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.
The dehydration is being done in defiance of Magouirk’s specific wishes, which she set down in a "living will," and without agreement of her closest living next-of-kin.
In her living will, Magouirk stated that fluids and nourishment were to be withheld only if she were either comatose or "vegetative," and she is neither. Nor is she terminally ill, which is generally a requirement for admission to a hospice.
Magouirk lives alone in LaGrange, though because of glaucoma she relied on her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy, to bring her food and do errands.
Claiming that she held Magouirk’s power of attorney, Gaddy had her transferred to Hospice-LaGrange, a 16-bed unit owned by the same family that owns the hospital. Once at the hospice, Gaddy stated that she did not want her grandmother fed or given water.
"Grandmama is old and I think it is time she went home to Jesus," Gaddy told Magouirk’s brother and nephew, McLeod and Ken Mullinax. "She has glaucoma and now this heart problem, and who would want to live with disabilities like these?"
Ken Mullinax recalled that Todd said the only reason Magouirk was in the hospice in the first place was that the LaGrange Hospital had failed to exercise due diligence in closely examining the power of attorney Beth Gaddy said she had, as well as exercising the provisions of Magouirk’s living will.
Gaddy went before Troup County, Ga., Probate Court Judge Donald W. Boyd and obtained an emergency guardianship over her grandmother.
Ron Panzer, president and founder of Hospice Patients Alliance, a patients’ rights advocacy group based in Michigan, told WND that what is happening to Magouirk is not at all unusual.
"This is happening in hospices all over the country," he said. "Patients who are not dying – are not terminal – are admitted [to hospice] and the hospice will say they are terminally ill even if they’re not. There are thousands of cases like this. Patients are given morphine and ativan to sedate them. If feeding is withheld, they die within 10 days to two weeks. It’s really just a form of euthanasia."
(Cowboy hat tip to the readers who have e-mailed.)
Murder By Starvation Redux
Its happening again. Here’s another link and an audio interview with a family member by Glenn Beck.
A woman who is not in a coma, not in a vegetative state, and who has a living will that prohibits this, is now being starved in Georgia. This woma…
Yep, it’s absolutely correct that this snuffing out of elderly invalids goes on in hospices and nursing homes all the time. We turn a blind eye to it, but it’s been going on for years. We found out about Terri Schiavo only because her family fought to prevent her adulterous estranged husband from murdering her, but when the family agrees to kill grandma, or if the relatives who want to kill grandma keep the other relatives from finding out what they’re doing, there’s no public controversy, and nobody is the wiser.
And it’s almost always perfectly legal.
Now that’s PROGRESS. Why push Granny down the stairs and have everyone mad at you, when you can have her “put down” quietly and have everyone feel sorry for you?
Can you imagine getting sympathy cards after pulling off something like this? When friends said “sorry for your loss” could you avoid snickering under your breath? What would one properly write in such a card? “I’m so sorry?”, or “congratulations”?
This is the flip-side, or the natural consequence, of abortion. A generation that was taught by the Supreme Court that the inconvenient may be murdered now quietly takes the next logical step. The generation that allowed millions of their children to be legally ripped apart in the womb is now finding that the cheapening of human life has it’s consequences.
However, this is exactly the kind of good that might come from the Terri Schiavo case: The Blogiverse, the “New Media” can drag this all out into the open. Expose the murderous weasels! Embarass & humiliate them by revealing their actions. Grab this issue and shake it like a dog.
Aw man…not again.
This sickens me. “Oh! I know! Grandma’s OLD! She wouldn’t want to LIVE if she had to have a feeding tube! I mean, I would, but she wouldn’t!!”
Seriously. How many people here would really want to commit suicide because they had heart problems and a feeding tube? If they do…they must be living a sad life and we should pray and feel sorry for them. But…really. Would I? No. Would you? I sure hope not.
Let’s look at the evidence by the article (assuming it is true:
1. Her living will clearly stated she did not want a feeding tube removed if she was not in a vegetative state.
2. She wasn’t.
3. It was.
These findings suggest a logical conclusion.
Yes. This reminds me (well…hard not to) of Terri Schiavo.
She ‘did not want to live in a persistant vegetative state.’
She isn’t.
They killed her on the basis that she was. (or…did they? Hard to know exactly what Michael’s motivation was)
Just…just…just….sad.
Is Beth Gaddy the type of person we want teaching our kids? What kind of message is this sending to the children of this world?
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