Thursday, March 31, 2005
A life saved?
Terri's plight may have already saved the life of another woman. From ReadingEagle comes this incredible news:
A petition to remove the feeding tube of a severely brain damaged Berks County woman has been withdrawn, ending a legal battle over the woman’s fate, those close to the case said Wednesday. Donna M. Matincheck, 44, will continue to receive life-sustaining treatment at the Mifflin Center in Cumru Township, where she resides. Matincheck, formerly of Reading, has been in a persistent vegetative state since 1982, when she suffered an apparent aneurysm while delivering her first child. Her guardian and former mother-in-law, Joan L. Matincheck of Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, had been seeking to have the tube removed but withdrew that request in paperwork filed Monday in Berks County Court. Donna Matincheck’s mother, Margaret “Peggy” R. Younkin, of Lee Center, N.Y., had objected to the petition, saying she wanted her daughter kept alive.
A petition to remove the feeding tube of a severely brain damaged Berks County woman has been withdrawn, ending a legal battle over the woman’s fate, those close to the case said Wednesday. Donna M. Matincheck, 44, will continue to receive life-sustaining treatment at the Mifflin Center in Cumru Township, where she resides. Matincheck, formerly of Reading, has been in a persistent vegetative state since 1982, when she suffered an apparent aneurysm while delivering her first child. Her guardian and former mother-in-law, Joan L. Matincheck of Elizabethtown, Lancaster County, had been seeking to have the tube removed but withdrew that request in paperwork filed Monday in Berks County Court. Donna Matincheck’s mother, Margaret “Peggy” R. Younkin, of Lee Center, N.Y., had objected to the petition, saying she wanted her daughter kept alive.
