Korp's feeding tubes to be removed.

Korp's feeding tubes to be removed. :

"'They're made as though you were a family member making that decision.'

Mrs Korp's lawyer, Jim Robinson, says her daughter Laura is distressed by the decision to remove her mother's feeding tube."

You cannot be the family member unless you ARE the family memeber. Thre is no way you can understand how someone relates to someone else and one of life's most awful tasks is to decide what to decide when it comes to a close family member being in dire straights. It is a horrible decision to make and it is never easy to be the one to decide. The public advocate is Maria korps' guardian. Why her daughter is not able to make the decision by law, I am not sure. The whole sorry mess is a testament to the cruelty of one person to another and how that has impacted on everyone involved with Maria Korp. The public advocate is probably doing the best he can within our laws, but I can only say what I said with Terri Schiavo - removing a feeding tube and letting someone die like that is not a normal way to treat someone. Maria Korp has been on life support since she was rescued form the car boot where she was left to die after she had been strangled. It is so sad she survived but could not live. Family members are truly distressed but that is understandable given they now have to give up hope and come to terms with the hideous reality of Maria Korp's situation. Maria Korp has never gained consciousness and has been given, in my opinion, every chance to show that she might live on. This is so sad. I would assume the affected family members would have some sort of meeting with legal/professional/medical people so much of this pain ,which they did not ask for, can be buffered. That is the most awful thing about this case. Maria was left to die and the family members are confronted with a very unpleasant reality which they have to manage one way or another. On the two occasions I have been confronted with similar situations (no attempts at murder and that really does bear some relevance here), we all found it helpful to speak with professionals and then with each other and then with individual professionals, and then each other and then we just had to go by instinct. Legally, the decison has been made, the family needs all the help it might need now.