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**Blowfish** · 05-04-2002, 01:24 PM

Kenny has to agree to go to such a facility at his age, he can't be involuntarily committed......unless he does something very rash and is sent there by the court. I do not think Kenny would be appreciative of our fund raising efforts. Not to mention, if he is deliquent in student loans, and has not paid someone owed money from a settlement and is movin money for the big guys, then he probably has enough cash stashed away to pay himself.

We could arrange an "intervention" but that is usually done by friends and those that care......and Kenny wouldn't be happy to see anyone saying they were from Bworld.

I say the money would be better spent on playing endless rounds of KENO--the ten number rounds no less. Or we can use it to by loads of scratch off lottery tickets. I love to scratch off those things even when I lose.

**Checkers** · 05-06-2002, 07:51 AM

who cares if that stinking drunk is appreciative or not? once he's dried out and sober he'll thank us

my only question is: if he's a drunk and a pill-popper, how long can he live? not too long, i hope!!!!

**Blowfish** · 05-06-2002, 11:27 AM

Half the people operating the books are drunks and pill poppers or worse. You'd be surprised how long they can hang on.

**Checkers** · 05-06-2002, 03:42 PM

ask karen ann quinlan

**Checkers** · 05-08-2002, 09:36 AM

former state vegetable of new jersey

**Blowfish** · 05-08-2002, 10:26 AM

OK, You got me with that one Checkers. I had to go look up who that was. For all those that DON'T know, here is a summary:

Quinlan
17 year-old Karen Ann Quinlan was admitted to a New Jersey hospital after lapsing into a coma on April 15, 1975. She had collapsed at a party that night, presumably due to a combination of drugs and alcohol. She had ceased breathing for at least two separate periods of approximately 15 minutes each. Her condition deteriorated even further after hospitalization, to the point where all examining physicians agreed she had suffered irreversible damage and was now in a persistent vegetative state, without hope of recovery.
Quilan's parents consulted their Roman Catholic priest, who informed them that they had no moral obligation to continue "extraordinary means" to sustain life when there was no realistic hope for recovery. However, "extraordinary means" was taken in this context to only apply to the respirator and not to the tube that delivered nutrition and hydration directly into Quinlan's stomach.
The hospital agreed to the parents' request to remove the respirator, but the primary-care physician refused to fulfill the family's wishes, due to his second thoughts and moral concerns. The hospital supported the physicians decision, as Quinlan was still technically alive by all criteria, including the Harvard brain-death criteria.
The Quinlans took their case to court. Meanwhile, the hospital medical staff proceeded to wean Karen from the respirator so that she would have a chance to breathe on her own should the court decide to allow withdrawal. The New Jersey Supreme Court sided with the Quinlans. However, Karen had been effectively weaned off the respirator at that point and the court decision was essentially irrelevant.
Quinlan lived in a persistent vegetative state with artificially provided nutrition and hydration for another 8 years.

So I guess you want the good doctor to get into an automobile accident induced by his abuse of drugs and alcohol then have US or even WORSE the taxpayers pay for him to be hooked to a machine for the next ten years? I think we should request he sign a "do not resucitate" waiver before we agree to use any of our hard earned fund money.

**Checkers** · 05-09-2002, 10:24 AM

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