Monday, March 7, 2011

The latest Terri Schiavo?

Immigrant’s Health Crisis Leaves Her Family on Sideline - NYTimes.com: On Feb. 19, Ms. Nyirahabiyambere’s feeding tube was removed on the order of her court-appointed guardian. Her six adult children — including two United States citizens — vehemently opposed that decision. But they were helpless to block it when Georgetown University Medical Center, frustrated in its efforts to discharge Ms. Nyirahabiyambere -- diagnosed as being in a 'persistent vegetative state' -- after she had spent eight costly months there without insurance, sought a guardian to make decisions that the family would not make. As of March 3 she was still alive.

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