Wednesday, December 10, 1997 Wendland to Live Judge rejects plea to end Stockton man’s life support By Kimi Yoshino, Record Staff Writer Robert Wendland should not be allowed to die by disconnecting the feeding tube that has kept him alive for four years, San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Bob McNatt declared Tuesday. The surprise [...]
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The newscast that brought the Wendland case into the public’s consciousness and began a debate that continues today. Technorati Tags: Conservatorship of Wendland, In “other” Words, Pro-Life Blog Carnival, The Cost of the Call
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By Liz Townsend Robert Wendland, severely disabled since a 1993 car accident, will not be starved to death, a California judge has ruled. The case pitted Wendland’s wife, who had asked the court to allow his feeding tube to be removed, against his mother and sister, who insisted he was conscious, responsive, and did not [...]
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by Cathy Ramey Associate Editor Life Advocate Magazine Stockton, CA–Two years after an automobile accident failed to kill him, Robert Wendland may die by court order. Wendland, in his mid-forties, was left first in a coma, and then “cognitively disabled” because of injury to his brain. He became newsworthy shortly after waking up from the [...]
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International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force IAETF Update Volume 11, Number 5 — November-December 1997 On 12/9/97, Judge McNatt ruled that Rose Wendland had failed to present clear and convincing evidence that starving and dehydrating Robert to death would be in his best interest. “If I have to choose life and death based on the evidence presented [...]
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by Wesley J. Smith Robert Wendland should die so that his family can “be allowed to live their lives,” Dr. Ronald Cranford, a Minnesota neurologist and bioethicist, testified recently in the Stockton courtroom of Superior Court Judge Bob McNatt. The chosen method of death? Intentional dehydration and starvation. What has Wendland, 45, done to deserve [...]
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by Wesley J. Smith Killing is not appropriate to the light. It is easiest done in the shadows, behind closed curtains, under cover of darkness, where nobody can see. To verify the truth of this, we only have to look to California’s Central Valley, to Stockton, where attorneys for the Lodi Memorial Hospital and attorneys [...]
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by Wesley J. Smith Robert [Wendland] will need to learn to adjust to no stimulation,” reads the sign above the cognitively and physically disabled man’s bed at Lodi Memorial Hospital West. This means that for much of the time, Robert lies in bed, without lights, music or television. He may only have visitors for 1 [...]
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Technorati Tags: Conservatorship of Wendland, In “other” Words, Pro-Life Blog Carnival, The Cost of the Call
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