PAYBACK TIME FOR FREEPERS: One coming off life support...

[elehhhhna]

Got your attention?

The Right to Lifers wholeheartedly joined the fight for Andrea Clark's right to live. The Freepers have a member being removed from life suppport today (not fighting it--she's brain dead).

If you're the praying type, please offer up a little for her & the family...the right to live and die with dignity is important to all of us.


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1627040/posts

[Cooley Hurd]

1. I'm not the praying type, but I do wish peace for her and her family...

:(

[mike_c]

2. kicking and recommending....

What she said.

[Journeyman]

3. A sad scene indeed, made doubly so because it was unexpected. . .

Enter the hospital for a "routine" procedure and end up wheeled into the morgue. My heart goes out to her friends and family. . . to anyone caught in such a nightmare scenario. It shouldn't happen -- yet it does. And as you say, elehhhna, we all deserve a life of dignity, especially in the closing hours. I pray that her loved ones find the strength and peace of acceptance and retain only cherished memories of the love and laughter.

[Richard Steele]

7. I agree- you said everything I was thinking.

And I can't say it any better than you did.

[benburch]

9. No such thing as a routine proceedure.

And less and less so with Corporate Medicine taking everything over.

[Hepburn]

12. About 4 years ago...

...a husband of one of my friends went in for a procedure just about like this and the same thing happened. Only he just had an angioplasty and no by-pass. The doctor nicked the aorta and it ruptured and that was the end of him.

For the family of Judy from Free Republic: I am not a praying person, but comforting thoughts are going your way from me and mine in your time of loss and sorrow. So sorry about what happened. The loss of a loved one is a very hard thing to go through.

:cry:

[jackster]

4. My deepest sympathies ...

to Judy B's family and friends.

Go in Peace Judy B.

[LA lady]

5. Thanks

Thanks for posting this. The right came through for Andrea and we should be together when we can.

Prayers for Judy, her family and loved oness.

[Caoimhe]

6. My thoughts are with her family

What a tough situation. Regardless of politics, we are all human.

[benburch]

8. Not the praying type...

...don't believe in any afterlife.

But I am glad that her family can let her body go, because she no longer exists.

And I hope that they recover from this and can go forward with enjoying the all-too-brief spans we can claim.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

10. Very sad indeed.

I wish her family well during this difficult time and express my condolences to the Freepers for their loss. She was obviously a well loved member of their community.

[myrna minx]

11. My heart goes out to her family.

:hug: This must be such a difficult time for them.

[wryter2000]

13. Poor lady

I hope her passing is peaceful and her family have good memories of her.

[GardeningGal]

14. It's so hard to lose a loved one, especially a Mom.

My heart and healing thoughts go out to the family.

[bleedingheart]

15. My prayers are with JudyB1938's family

[crispini]

16. Peace and prayers.

Indeed.

[tandot]

17. Thoughts and prayers for JudyB1938 and her family.

May the memories she created with her family soothe their sorrow.

[Turn CO Blue]

18. Peace and prayers to the family & to Free Republic community.

I am putting out thoughts for dignity and all comfort to the family of JudyB1938!

We're all just human, you know.

[Canuckistanian]

19. Sorry to hear that

I hope her family is coping. This is an unexpected tragedy.

[jeanarrett]

20. So sorry for JudyB's family.

Peace to all of you.

[stepnw1f]

21. Peace (nt)

[Synnical]

22. Condolences to the family

in their time of sadness.

[Horse with no Name]

23. Prayers and Peace for JudyB's family

As I watched a very wise physician one time explain the futility of a patient's case to the family, his words rang true then and they ring true now(paraphrased).

"We can offer your mother the best that medicine has to offer. We can do the treatments. We can operate. We can buy time. But at the end of the day, no matter what we do, we've reached the end of the road. We have no idea if that time we buy will bring suffering or peace. The decision belongs to you, her family. It is entirely your decision of how to proceed, but whatever you decide, just know that you made the right decision. There aren't any wrong decisions. Anything you decide to do, there is no doubt it was done out of love."

May you find peace in your decisions. Godspeed.

[SoCalDem]

53. My best friend had to remove her 24 yr old son from life-support

The hospital had done everything they could for him, and the machines were keeping him alive.. I think the hospital was waiting for the right moment to approach her with organ donation (which she did).

Just a flukey car accident where everyone else walked away, and Jeff ended up dead :cry:

[Horse with no Name]

54. I'm so sorry for your friend's loss

And yours as well.
Organ donation is one of the single greatest things a family can do--and it enabled her son to die a hero to all of the families who received his organs and with it, a second chance at life.
Bless her for having the ability to make that hard decision when her own life had been turned upside down.
That is the ultimate test of selflessness.
:hug:

[Lugnut]

24. How sad

Peace and condolences to her family. :(

[lostnfound]

25. She looks very familiar.

I hope her soul is in heaven being flooded with truth and love, which is what I imagine happens to all of us.

Unexpected death is so hard.

Peace and kind memories to her family.

[The Witch]

26. Absolutely best wishes prayers & thoughts.

May they find solace and peace even in dark times.

[Blue Diadem]

27. Condolences to her family and her friends at FR.

Prayers for all to find comfort and peace.

[OzarkDem]

28. Prayers for her, her family and Free Republic

Sounds like a tragic, untimely situation. May she go in peace.

Throwing out another prayer for Free Republic. Considering some of the comments and signature lines, those people need a lot of praying.

[Kadie]

29. Thoughts and prayers are with her, her family, and friends. n/t

[Mandate My Ass]

30. That's so sad

Peace to her, her family, and her community.

[Robbie Michaels]

31. Prayers for JudyB's family & friends

[TheBaldyMan]

32. Even FReepers deserve universal healthcare.

I take no pleasure in the suffering of others (with the possible exception of the Bush Junta).

[Jack Rabbit]

33. Thank you for posting this

We wish peace and comfort to Judy B's family and friends.

[RandomKoolzip]

34. I'm not the praying type, but I'll send good wishes to her family.

This is just awful. Does anyone still doubt the need for universal healthcare?

[Th1onein]

35. The title of your post is well.........kind of mean?

I understand what you are trying to say, but the subject line could be misinterpreted to mean that you are happy that a "freeper" is being taken off of life support.

I will pray for her and her family, as well.

[dogday]

36. A living will can be your best friend at the end

of your life.. Write it down, so your wishes will be honored.... Thoughts and prayers....

[tyedyeto]

43. That is what my friend has done

she has been on life support, but her husband has seen that she will probably not get recover. All life support has been withdrawn and now it's a matter of time. She's a fighter but this could be her last bout.

[Old and In the Way]

37. These situations are always tough on the family.

My condolences to JudyB's family and friends.

[AuntiBush]

38. Prayer for Andrea Clark, Right Here & Now.

"the right to live and die with dignity..." is most certainly is the right of all.

Peace

[BrightKnight]

39. condolences to her family and friends

Like most people my family has people on all sides of the political spectrum. When something like this happens the last thing that we worry about is politics.

[juajen]

40. I am certainly the praying type

I will pray for Judy and her family. I have a husband who has had eight or nine angioplasties and a quadruple by-pass. I am paralyzed with fear every time we have to go into the hospital. I always appreciated all the prayers for my hubbie and our family.,

My sympathy to all of you who loved her.

[JI7]

41. very sad for the family

[DearAbby]

42. Peace for this woman, and Our thoughts are with the family.

[merh]

44. My prayers go out for her peaceful passage and for her

family, that they find comfort in their memories and love. :grouphug:

[meisje]

45. The Idea of anything with the freepers makes me want to vomit

[DIKB]

46. True,

but we're better than them. No one here is forming websites claiming that it's all a farce.

[DIKB]

47. My deepest sympathies.

It is always a frightening thing, and often a very sad realization, how fragile life is.

May she live on, in the hearts and minds of those who loved her.

[uppityperson]

48. my condolences for anyone having to deal with something like this.

[alittlelark]

49. The best outcome possible for all

I hope and pray for peace and clarity.

[MnFats]

50. praying she will find peace and freedom from pain...

n/t

[Skittles]

51. I despise freepers

still, I am sympathetic towards this lady and her family and friends

[Kurovski]

52. Add my prayer that sorrow be eased.