Q: My moms husband just died by her stepsons ending life support without her consent is this legal??
My mom went in to visit her husband Wednesday morning Dr said he was getting better and he maybe would pull thru. Well when she had left her husbands son's for some reason had some kind of authority over there dad's life without consulting with my mom and decided to sign papers at the hospital to end life support. My mom went to visit him the next day because nobody had told her anything and they told her that he was dead and thats all they could tell her because my mom had no rights.
A: The individual can decide who will make those decisions. For whatever reason your mom's husband chose his son and not her. However the "getting better might pull through" and then dead suggests that it was not a pull the plug situation. She should contact a member of CAOC who handles medical cases--they give free consults.. She will want to get the records of his hospital stay. She should ask for them on disk.They'll say "can we print them out?" Unless they guarantee her the same cost ($7) go with the disc and the CAOC member can look at them &/or print them out.
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