Georgia hospice and judge ignore living will to kill elderly patient

WorldNetDaily: Granddaughter yanks grandma's feeding tube:
"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, two siblings and a nephew: A. Byron McLeod, 64, of Anniston, Ga.; Ruth Mullinax, 74, of Birmingham, Ala.; and Ruth Mullinax's son, Ken Mullinax."

Unlike the late Terry Schindler-Schiavo, Mrs. Magouirk was lucid when she entered hospital recently for emergency aortic resection to correct an aneurism. She had never been diagnosed as demented, comatose, or vegetative, and her cardiologist said she was no longer at risk of imminent death. The granddaughter who ordered her death had only a financial power of attorney, acted contrary to her grandother's living will and, when she was caught exceeding her authority, managed to get a probate judge to make her guardian despite the fact that nearer relatives, a brother and sister, are living and oppose her decision to kill Mrs. Magouirk.

That slippery slope you were warned about is not only very slippery, the slope is increasing, too. "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." Maybe we should stop referring to people in medical and nursing facilities as patients and just call them victims.