"Euthanasia is illegal in Louisiana" yet under some circumstances it

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seems to have been carried out.
I am not familiar with this source--a friend sent me this article.



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=361980

We had to kill our patients

by CAROLINE GRAHAM and JO KNOWSLEY

09/11/05 "Mail On Sunday" .

......The doctor, who finally fled her hospital late last week in fear of being murdered by the armed looters, said: "This was not murder, this was compassion. They would have been dead within hours, if not days. We did not put people down. What we did was give comfort to the end.

"I had cancer patients who were in agony. In some cases the drugs may have speeded up the death process.

"We divided patients into three categories: those who were traumatised but medically fit enough to survive, those who needed urgent care, and the dying.

"People would find it impossible to understand the situation. I had to make life-or-death decisions in a split second. .......


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1. I can see this happening in NO under these circumstances.

.....In an extraordinary interview with The Mail on Sunday, one New Orleans doctor told how she 'prayed for God to have mercy on her soul' after she ignored every tenet of medical ethics and ended the lives of patients she had earlier fought to save.

Her heart-rending account has been corroborated by a hospital orderly and by local government officials. One emergency official, William 'Forest' McQueen, said: "Those who had no chance of making it were given a lot of morphine and lain down in a dark place to die."

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2. misunderstanding

I first heard this story as though they were letting people die after Sept. 3, after the gov't found out there were people still trapped and started moving in help. I thought it didn't make sense. Why would they let people die if they could have taken them to other hospitals. But now it makes sense, if it was in the beginning of the week when everyone was trapped. I still don't understand why that happened. The media could get in just fine.

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4. but transportation never arrived to take out enough patients.

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3. British families fear for US relatives

<snip> Mother-of-two Suzanne McQueen, of Maidstone, Kent, is waiting for news of her American husband (William) Forest McQueen.

He has been working in his home country since 1997, and lives and works with his brother in the Abita Springs area, north of Lake Pontchartrain, which is north of New Orleans. <snip>

Part of his job there is to maintain the grounds of an old plantation house, she said. <snip>

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4220656.stm

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5. so--are you saying you found William 'Forest' McQueen,?

from IP:
....Her heart-rending account has been corroborated by a hospital orderly and by local government officials. One emergency official, William 'Forest' McQueen, said: "Those who had no chance of making it were given a lot of morphine and lain down in a dark place to die."

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6. What is "emergency official" McQueen's actual title? eom