Please read my previous post for an introduction and for the e-mails
I sent out regarding Hank, which are in chronological order.

Here are the next e-mails I sent out regarding Hank:


----- Original Message -----
From: melissa roxanne
Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 11:19 AM
Subject: Please e-mail, pray for, and try to save Hanford's life now
& as long as he is alive-Pls. forward to others


Dear friends and friends of friends,
I just e-mailed Hanford and Alice Pinette. You can only send a short
e-mail to them. I told them many people are praying for them -
praying for a miracle that Hanford's life be saved. I also said we
love them both, to NOT GIVE UP, and that God is with them both. I
told them to check their answering machine NOW as I left a very
important message on it.

You may see this case covered on CNN, HNN, and other cable news
channels, as it was on CNN last night.

I believe an appeal is still possible by Mrs. Hanford's attorney.

I urge all of you to fight to save this man's life any way you can.
This could be our family member or us in this same situation, and how
much would we wish others would come to our aid to try and save our
loved one's or our own life then?

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving day, and we all have so much to be thankful
for. This many is a veteran who fought for his country. He wants to
live and his wife is trying to carry out his wishes to live. His
wife probably feels like she is all alone, like David fighting
Goliath, but the Father and Son are with them both, and I pray that
God's will be done in this and all matters.

Please pray for these people as often as you can as you go about your
Thanksgiving preparations and celebrations and thereafter.

Please do not forget about them or many others who need our prayers
and help.

I suggest that all of you send numerous short e-mails to Hanford and
Alice whenever you can, as long as Hanford is alive, to keep their
spirits up and to let them know how much we truly care about them
both.

Please forward this information and my previous e-mails to others who
will get involved.

Thanks for your help and prayers.

Sincerely,
Melissa Roxanne Stanley
Volusia County, (DeLand), Florida

Email Sent.
Thank you for your message, Melissa Roxanne Stanley!

Hanford Pinette in room NOT SURE-PLS DELIVER THIS! at Orlando
Regional Lucerne should recieve your message within one business day.


Emails are distributed within one business day.
Although Orlando Regional makes every effort to maintain the
confidentiality of your email, privacy cannot be guaranteed.
We cannot provide patient information via email.

Please e-mail Hanford Pinette here:
https://www.orhs.org/contact/patients/
Email a Patient
Please complete this form to contact a patient. Please note:


Emails are distributed within one business day.
Although Orlando Regional makes every effort to maintain the
confidentiality of your email, privacy cannot be guaranteed.
We cannot provide patient information via email.
(Be sure and choose "Orlando Regional Lucerne" on drop down menu for
name of hospital!)
( You may enter up to 255 characters. )

https://www.orhs.org/contact/patients/

___________________________________________________________________



----- Original Message -----
From: melissa roxanne
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 2:02 AM
Subject: Veteran Hanford "Hank" Pinette Died Today-God Bless His Soul


On December 8, 1998, Hanford "Hank Pinette", a veteran with 24 years
of service, signed a Living Will. On the same date he signed a
document giving his wife, Alice, Durable Power of Attorney which
stated she could make all of his medical decisions. Exactly 6 years
to the day later, on December 8, 2004, Hank was disconnected from
life support and killed against his most recent wishes.

Hank recently repeatedly told his wife he wanted to go home. He made
many statements to her and to other family members recently that
showed he was absolutely conscious and cognizant. Pictures of Hank
were shown on our local news and he was clearly conscious and even
smiling happily at his wife in the very recent pictures. Despite all
of this evidence showing Hank was conscious, cognizant, wanted to
live, and wanted very badly to "go home", doctors testified he was
unconscious and incapacitated. Hank Pinette's pulmonologist Juan
Herran told Orlando newspapers that he has not seen a cognitive
response from Hanford in weeks or months.

Orange County, Florida Circuit Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled that the
hospital had the right to follow Hank Pinette's Living Will, even
though Hank's wife, Alice, also had a Durable Power of Attorney form
from her husband stating she could make all medical decisions for
him.

The way these articles appearing appear below are slanted towards the
agendas of the bioethicists, Death Cults, ravenous killers just
sickens me, (except the ones written by those who fight to save
lives). It is blatantly obvious that these propagandists' tools are
written by puppets on strings pulled by higher powers to enforce
their Hitlerian agenda. Routine killings are carried out every
moment worldwide now, including of those who are mentally and / or
physically disabled, injured, or mildly ill, from unborn fetuses in
the womb, to newborns, children, young adults, adults, middle aged,
and the elderly - none of us are safe from those who purport to give
us all DEATH WITH DIGNITY. It's not dignified for vunerable and
innocent victims to fight with all of their beings to demonstrate
their will to live and then to have heartless and hopeless strangers
such as bioethicists, Euthanasia advocates, doctors, hospital board
members, and / or uncaring relatives or spouses, (in Terri Schindler-
Schiavo's case), play God and testify in court that there is no hope
that the person will ever recover or gain consciousness when these
victims are clearly conscious already and showing they are fighting
for their lives! Whether or not a person is conscious, it is not
right to murder them or to judge their lives are not of "sufficient
quality" for them to be allowed to receive medical treatment,
therapy, life support, including even food and water, and for them to
be allowed to LIVE! This case and the tremendous number of killings
taking place worldwide demonstrates that we are ALL very much at risk
to become the next victims, regardless of our wishes to live. May
God help us all, especially those in danger right this moment of
being judged not worthy of life by the foaming-at-the-mouth
executioners.



Does this very recent picture of Hanford "Hank" Pinette look like an
unconscious man who wanted to die

or a smiling, cognizant man who wanted to get better, go home, and
eat a steak?





What a tragedy!

Hank wanted so much to live and they killed him. The Death With
Dignity (Orwellian Double Speak for Right to Kill) group members
removed his life support today and he died.

God Bless Hank, who valiantly fought for 24 years for our country and
courageously, yet happily, showed his will to live up to the end!
God Bless Hank's wife, Alice, of Clermont, Florida, who fought to
save his life and to abide by Hank's recent wishes to live, to get
better, and to go home.





Thanks so much to all of you who e-mailed or called Hank and Alice,
those of who passed on e-mails, those who prayed, those who talked
about this man and woman to get others to notice and to pray for
them, and to those of you who put this information on your websites
and talked about it on your radio shows.

Please keep Hank and Alice in your prayers.


Melissa Roxanne Stanley
Volusia County, (DeLand) Florida
I live in a county which borders Lake County, where Hanford and Alice
live(d).


Note:
I have not yet found any articles regarding Hank's death, but it was
just reported on Wednesday, December 8th on our local 10:00 PM EST
Orlando WRDQ news.

http://news.google.com/news?q=%22Hanford+Pinette%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-
8859-1&tab=wn&scoring=d



Judge Orders Disabled Veteran Killed

Following the lead of Florida's pseudo* judge George Greer, who has
ordered the Torture-Killing of Terri Shindler, Orange Circuit Judge
Lawrence Kirkwood has ordered the Torture-Murder of a Disabled
American Veteran, Hanford Pinette, at Orlando's Lucerne Hospital now
aspiring to be Lucerne Abattoir.

The formula for the State Ordered Killing is the same in both cases.
The family gives evidence that the patient is cognizant. The Court
determins their victim is in a "vegitative state"
and insists on the death penalty.

"Pinette's wife of 50 years testified Tuesday that she continues to
communicate with her husband, who is alert and responsive when he
wants to be.."

The Judge said kill him.

"Alice Pinette said, as recently as Sunday, her husband was watching
football. On Monday, she said, he told family members who recently
had shot a deer to "save me a steak."

The judge said kill him.

"Pinette showed pictures of a seemingly alert and responsive Hanford
Pinette in his hospital bed"

The judge said kill him.

"Hanford Pinette IS COMMUNICATING to his wife NOW that he wishes to
LIVE!
On the news last night, Tuesday, November 23, 2004, at 11 P.M.
Hanford's wife, Alice, stated that Hanford asked for a wheelchair and
to be taken home! The news also showed a picture of him wearing his
Veterans of War cap and smiling at his wife happily. His wife, Alice
stated how happy it made him to wear
the cap. He looked totally happy and definitely conscious to me! Here
is the picture I found online of this:
http://www.local6.com/news/3934635/detail.html
-- Melissa Stanley

The State Of Florida Is Opening The Killing Fields
David L. Evans, Orlando Regional Healthcare's lawyer said he did not
expect the Pinette case to generate the legislative or political
action that has surrounded the battle about Terri Schiavo.
Will you speak up now or in silence await the knock of The Death Cult
on your door?

Pinette, a Korean War veteran retired with 24 years of military
service

Where is the VFW ?
http://www.vfw.org/index.cfm?fa=news.levelc&cid=1641&tok=1
# FLORIDA : (352) 622-5126 deptoffloridavfw@...

Where is the American Legion ?
The National Commander National Commander's Office (317) 630-1200
Click here to contact http://www.legion.org/?
content=contact_us&con=NatlCmdr

Where is the DAV ?
Email https://www.dav.org/feedback_form.asp
National Headquarters
3725 Alexandria Pike
Cold Spring, KY 41076
Phone: (859) 441-7300

Where is Florida Governor Jeb Bush ?
phone: 850-488-7146
email: jeb.bush@... or jeb@...
fax: 850-487-0801 or 850-922-4292
Press Secretary - phone: 850-488-5394
Assistant Donovan Brown - phone: 850-410-0501

For more information on the killing of this vet contact
Melissa Stanley saveterrislife@...




posted by Vetzine Publishing




http://www.vetzine.blogspot.com/



Article published Wednesday, Nov 24, 2004

Judge upholds living will

Husband wants to live, woman says

By Mike Branom

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ORLANDO, Fla. A judge Tuesday upheld a living will for a 73-year-old
central Florida man, hospitalized and on life support, despite pleas
from his wife that he is not as ill as his doctors say.

Hanford Pinette of Clermont cannot communicate and is unaware of his
medical condition, which includes chronic failures of his
respiratory, circulatory and renal systems, according to medical
experts at Lucerne Hospital. His health problems began in February.

In 1998, the veteran of 24 years in the military signed a living will
stating that death would be preferable if faced with a terminal
illness and incapacity. Officials said Orlando Regional Healthcare
said they had no choice but to follow his wishes, and allow him to
die with dignity.

But also in 1998, he gave his wife durable power of attorney over his
affairs, including decisions on health care. Alice Pinette insisted
her husband of 53 years can communicate and wants to live.

After 90 minutes of testimony from two doctors, a hospital official
and Alice Pinette, Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled that
the living will must be upheld. Otherwise, those with power of
attorney could impose their wishes on the incapacitated.

"We have to honor his feelings, his decision of what he would do,"
David L. Evans, Orlando Regional Healthcare's lawyer, said during his
closing statement.

Alice Pinette refused comment after the hearing. Her attorney, Bill
Ruffier, said he needed to read the six-page ruling before deciding
whether to appeal.

Evans said the hospital would work with Pinette's family to ensure
his death will be as painless and peaceful as possible.

The hearing took an emotional turn when Alice Pinette, on the witness
stand, said she could not agree to disconnecting the machines keeping
her husband alive.

The decision would be easier, she said, if he was in a coma. But she
testified her husband was communicating with family members as
recently as Sunday, and was a cognizant mind trapped in a weak body.

"To me, that's killing a man and I cannot do that," Alice Pinette
said.

Her stories of Hanford watching football with relatives and learning
sign language from his daughter were nothing like the accounts given
by his doctors.

Hanford Pinette "clearly cannot understand what is happening to him,"
Dr. Sanjay Muttreja testified.

Added Dr. Juan Herran, "Mr. Pinette is in a very unfortunate
situation."

The two doctors, who have treated Hanford for months, both said he is
incapacitated, couldn't make his own decisions and that it was very
unlikely he would recover - the standards for enacting the living
will.

The hospital's bioethics committee, in place to review cases such as
this, also agreed that Pinette's condition was terminal.

"The committee recommended the patient's living will was valid, and
that we should follow its directive," said Carol Paris, Orlando
Regional Healthcare's director of risk management.

http://www.macon.com/mld/tallahassee/news/10258772.htm



Published Sunday, November 21, 2004


Despite Will, Wife Fights to Keep Life-Support

By MIKE BRANOM
The Associated Press

ORLANDO -- Alice Pinette is sure her husband of 53 years, in a
hospital hooked up to life-support machines, isn't on death's door.
He's aware of his surroundings and can communicate, she says.

That's why the Clermont woman is going to court rather than watch
Hanford Pinette be disconnected from those machines, despite a living
will stating dying would be preferable if he were ever faced with a
terminal illness and incapacity. Alice Pinette possesses a document,
signed the same day in 1998 as the living will, giving her power of
attorney over her 73-year-old husband's life.

At a court hearing Tuesday, arguments will be presented over which
legal paper trumps the other. Then Circuit Court Judge Lawrence
Kirkwood must decide not just whether Pinette should perish, but
determine a landmark right-to-die case.

"This is a brand new area of the law," said William E. Ruffier, Alice
Pinette's lawyer.

Hanford Pinette wrote a living will in 1998 and assigned his wife to
carry out his wishes, designating her as his "surrogate."

In the event of a terminal condition with no probability of recovery,
Pinette stated he wanted "to die naturally" and receive medication
only to "alleviate pain."

But the power of attorney states her husband assigned her to decide
how he should be cared for, including life-prolonging measures.

Earlier this year, Pinette suffered congestive heart failure, his
wife said. He has been hospitalized since February, according to the
petition filed by Orlando Regional Healthcare, and is currently at
Lucerne Hospital.

In court documents, the hospital argues that Pinette's "renal system,
respiratory system and cardiovascular system are all being supported
by artificial means alone."

David L. Evans, Orlando Regional Healthcare's lawyer, said the
hospital maintains Pinette will not get better and the hospital wants
only to abide by his wishes.

"All we can do is come in and describe his medical condition and his
competency," Evans told the Orlando Sentinel earlier this
month. "We're just doing what we feel we're legally obligated to do."

But Alice Pinette, who goes to the hospital daily, insists her
husband is far better off than the hospital believes, her lawyer said.

"People typically think of these living wills, when they sign them,
as `If I'm in a vegetative state, hooked up to a bunch of machines
and draining my family's bank account, my wish is to not have that
artificial life support,' " Ruffier said. "But in Mr. Pinette's case,
he is alert, aware and able to still enjoy his family."

The case is being watched closely in many legal circles.

"The living will is supposed to . . . supersede even the wife or a
designated surrogate," said Lauchlin Waldoch, a Tallahassee lawyer
who is on the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys' board of
directors. "This is a very good example why we, as elder law
attorneys, preach the gospel of coming to see us."

Another expert saw the Pinettes' case as a cautionary example of why
living wills only go so far.

"The health care surrogate is more powerful in many ways," said Scott
Solkoff, chairman of the elder-law section of the Florida Bar. "In
real life, regardless of what the statutes state, the surrogate is a
real person, not just a piece of paper."


http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?
AID=/20041121/NEWS/411210381/1004



Excerpts:

"Thou shall not kill, and I cannot kill him," Alice Pinette earlier
told the judge during testimony. "I cannot do this and live with me
[myself]. When someone is talking to you, how can you do that?"

Doctors said Pinette is kept alive by a ventilator, a dialysis
machine and medication and that he has no hope of recovery. Hospital
officials took the case to court when Alice refused to allow them to
kill her husband.

Alice said that if her husband were in a coma and unresponsive, she
would carry out the direction in the living will. However, her
husband watches football, and told family members who recently shot a
deer to "save me a steak."

She said Hanford picks and chooses to whom he will talk and showed
pictures at the trial of him seemingly alert.

But Pinette's pulmonologist Juan Herran told the Orlando newspaper
that he has not seen a cognitive response from Hanford in weeks or
months. Herran said Hanford would not likely recover from the
congestive heart failure that led to the shutdown of other vital
organs.

http://www.lifenews.com/bio579b.html



Excerpts:

In 1998, Pinette signed a living will stating that death would be
preferable if he was faced with a terminal illness and incapacity.
Officials with Orlando Regional Healthcare, which runs the Lucerne
Hospital, say they have no choice but to follow his wishes, and allow
him to die with dignity.

But also in 1998, Pinette gave his wife durable power of attorney
over his affairs, including decisions on health care. Alice Pinette
insists her husband of 53 years can communicate and wants to live.

On Tuesday, Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled the living
will must be upheld. Otherwise, he said, those with power of attorney
could impose their wishes on the incapacitated.

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?sid=340940&nid=104


Excerpts:

Alice Pinette testified at the that her husband was communicating
with family members as recently as Sunday, and has an aware mind
trapped in a weak body.

His doctors disagreed. Pinette "clearly cannot understand what is
happening to him," Muttreja testified. Added Dr. Juan Herran: "Mr.
Pinette is in a very unfortunate situation."

The two doctors, who have treated Pinette for months, both said he is
incapacitated, can't make his own decisions and is very unlikely to
recover _ the standards for enacting the living will.

The hospital's bioethics committee agreed that Pinette's condition
was terminal.

"The committee recommended the patient's living will was valid, and
that we should follow its directive," said Carol Paris, Orlando
Regional's director of risk management.

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?sid=340940&nid=104


Florida Hospital Can Kill Man Via Euthanasia Over Wife's Objections

by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
November 26, 2004

Orlando, FL (LifeNews.com) -- A Florida hospital this week won the
right to euthanize a patient despite his wife's wishes against
revoking lifesaving medical treatment. The hospital and wife disputed
whether or not 73-year-old terminally ill patient Hanford Pinette had
any hope of survival.

Orange Circuit Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled that the hospital had
the right to follow Pinette's living will, even though Pinette's wife
also had a durable power of attorney form from her husband.

Written in 1998, the documents authorized his wife, Alice Pinette, to
make his medical decisions. However, Hanford Pinette also said he did
not want "to prolong artificially the process of dying." It stated
that he wanted "to die naturally" and receive treatment only
to "alleviate pain."

Kirkwood ruled that Pinette's "living will must be respected as his
last wishes," despite Alice's contention that her husband was alert,
interacting with her, and wanting to go home.

The decision allows doctors at Lucerne Hospital to remove Pinette
from machines and medicines that are keeping him alive. Despite the
authorization, a hospital attorney said he would talk with his family
one more time before making any final decision, according to an
Orlando Sentinel report.

The Sentinel reported that Alice pleaded with Judge Kirkwood not to
allow the hospital to end her husband's life.

"Thou shall not kill, and I cannot kill him," Alice Pinette earlier
told the judge during testimony. "I cannot do this and live with me
[myself]. When someone is talking to you, how can you do that?"

Doctors said Pinette is kept alive by a ventilator, a dialysis
machine and medication and that he has no hope of recovery. Hospital
officials took the case to court when Alice refused to allow them to
kill her husband.

Alice said that if her husband were in a coma and unresponsive, she
would carry out the direction in the living will. However, her
husband watches football, and told family members who recently shot a
deer to "save me a steak."

She said Hanford picks and chooses to whom he will talk and showed
pictures at the trial of him seemingly alert.

But Pinette's pulmonologist Juan Herran told the Orlando newspaper
that he has not seen a cognitive response from Hanford in weeks or
months. Herran said Hanford would not likely recover from the
congestive heart failure that led to the shutdown of other vital
organs.

http://www.lifenews.com/bio579b.html



Judge Upholds Living Will Over Wife's Pleas
Updated: Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2004 - 11:56 PM

By MIKE BRANOM
Associated Press Writer


Alice Pinette, second from left, and her attorney William Ruffier (in
back at left) are interviewed in Orlando, Fla., Tuesday, Nov. 23,
2004, after attending a hearing during which a judge upheld a living
will for Alice's husband Hanford Pinette. (AP Photo/Roberto Gonzalez,
Pool)

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - The living will of a 73-year-old man who is
hospitalized and on life support must be respected, a judge ruled
Tuesday, despite his wife's pleas that he be allowed to live.

Hanford Pinette can no longer communicate and is unaware of his
medical condition, which includes chronic failures of his
respiratory, circulatory and renal systems, according to medical
experts.

In 1998, Pinette signed a living will stating that death would be
preferable if he was faced with a terminal illness and incapacity.
Officials with Orlando Regional Healthcare, which runs the Lucerne
Hospital, say they have no choice but to follow his wishes, and allow
him to die with dignity.

But also in 1998, Pinette gave his wife durable power of attorney
over his affairs, including decisions on health care. Alice Pinette
insists her husband of 53 years can communicate and wants to live.

On Tuesday, Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled the living
will must be upheld. Otherwise, he said, those with power of attorney
could impose their wishes on the incapacitated.

Alice Pinette refused comment after the hearing. Her attorney said he
needed to read the ruling before deciding whether to appeal.

David L. Evans, Orlando Regional's lawyer, said the hospital would
work with Pinette's family to ensure his death is as painless and
peaceful as possible.

One of Pinette's doctors testified at the hearing that it is hard to
say how quickly the man would die if taken off life support. "I
cannot predict when, but that would be the end," Dr. Sanjay Muttreja
said.

Alice Pinette testified at the that her husband was communicating
with family members as recently as Sunday, and has an aware mind
trapped in a weak body.

His doctors disagreed. Pinette "clearly cannot understand what is
happening to him," Muttreja testified. Added Dr. Juan Herran: "Mr.
Pinette is in a very unfortunate situation."

The two doctors, who have treated Pinette for months, both said he is
incapacitated, can't make his own decisions and is very unlikely to
recover _ the standards for enacting the living will.

The hospital's bioethics committee agreed that Pinette's condition
was terminal.

"The committee recommended the patient's living will was valid, and
that we should follow its directive," said Carol Paris, Orlando
Regional's director of risk management.

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?sid=340940&nid=104




Central Fla. man's living will upheld despite wife's plea

By Mike Branom
The Associated Press
Posted November 24 2004



ORLANDO · A judge Tuesday upheld a living will for a 73-year-old
Central Florida man, hospitalized and on life support, despite pleas
from his wife that he is not as ill as his doctors say.

Hanford Pinette, of Clermont, cannot communicate and is unaware of
his medical condition, which includes chronic failures of his
respiratory, circulatory and renal systems, according to medical
experts at Lucerne Hospital. His health problems began in February.

In 1998, he signed a living will stating that death would be
preferable if faced with a terminal illness and incapacity. Officials
said Orlando Regional Healthcare said they had no choice but to
follow his wishes, and allow him to die with dignity.

But also in 1998, he gave his wife durable power of attorney over his
affairs, including decisions on health care. Alice Pinette insisted
her husband of 53 years can communicate and wants to live.

After 90 minutes of testimony from two doctors and Alice Pinette,
Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled that the living will must
be upheld. Otherwise, those with power of attorney could impose their
wishes on the incapacitated.

Alice Pinette refused comment after the hearing.

Cached



Living-will case heads to courtroom as Clermont woman tries to keep
husband alive

Anthony Colarossi
Orlando Sentinel
Posted November 18 2004



Hanford Pinette made his wishes clear in a living will -- he never
wanted to be kept alive by a machine.

Today, Pinette, 73, lies in an Orlando hospital, machines run his
lungs and kidneys to keep him alive. Doctors see an unresponsive
patient with no hope of recovery. Alice Pinette sees her husband of
53 years clinging to life.

Now, the Clermont man's fate will be fought out in a courtroom in an
unusual battle waged by Orlando Regional Healthcare System officials,
who want to let him die, against Alice Pinette, who wants to keep him
alive.

"They're just trying to pull the plugs," said Alice Pinette, 73. "...
I won't let them do it."

A hearing in the case is scheduled for Tuesday before Orange Circuit
Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood. The outcome could have broad
implications on the enforcement of living wills, which are supposed
to remove uncertainty about a patient's wishes.

Earlier this year, Pinette suffered congestive heart failure and has
been hospitalized since February.

Pinette, who moved to Clermont from Maryland to retire with his wife,
wrote a living will in 1998 and assigned Alice Pinette to carry out
his wishes.

But he also named his wife his durable power of attorney.

Hospital lawyer David L. Evans said the hospital is trying to abide
by the patient's wishes.

Cached




Posted on Sat, Nov. 20, 2004

Hospital, wife battle over patient

By Mike Branom
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ORLANDO - Alice Pinette is sure her husband of 53 years, in a
hospital hooked up to life-support machines, isn't on death's door.
He's aware of his surroundings and can communicate, she says.

That's why the Clermont woman is going to court rather than watch
Hanford Pinette be disconnected from those machines, despite a living
will stating dying would be preferable if he were ever faced with a
terminal illness and incapacity. Alice Pinette possesses a document,
signed the same day in 1998 as the living will, giving her power of
attorney over her 73-year-old husband's life.

At a court hearing Tuesday, arguments will be presented over which
legal paper trumps the other. Then Circuit Court Judge Lawrence
Kirkwood must decide not just whether Pinette should perish, but
determine a landmark right-to-die case.

"This is a brand new area of the law," said William E. Ruffier, Alice
Pinette's attorney.

Hanford Pinette wrote a living will in 1998 and assigned his wife to
carry out his wishes, designating her as his "surrogate."

In the event of a terminal condition with no probability of recovery,
Pinette stated he wanted "to die naturally" and receive medication
only to "alleviate pain."

But the power of attorney states her husband assigned her to decide
how he should be cared for, including life-prolonging measures.

Earlier this year, Pinette suffered congestive heart failure, his
wife said. He has been hospitalized since February, according to the
petition filed by Orlando Regional Healthcare, and is currently at
Lucerne Hospital.

In court documents, the hospital argues that Pinette's "renal system,
respiratory system and cardiovascular system are all being supported
by artificial means alone."

David L. Evans, Orlando Regional Healthcare's lawyer, said the
hospital maintains Pinette will not get better and the hospital wants
only to abide by his wishes.

"All we can do is come in and describe his medical condition and his
competency," Evans said last week. "We're just doing what we feel
we're legally obligated to do."

But Alice Pinette, who goes to the hospital daily, insists her
husband is far better off than the hospital believes, her attorney
said.

"People typically think of these living wills, when they sign them,
as 'If I'm in a vegetative state, hooked up to a bunch of machines
and draining my family's bank account, my wish is to not have that
artificial life support,"' Ruffier said. "But in Mr. Pinette's case,
he is alert, aware and able to still enjoy his family."

The case is being watched closely in many legal circles.

"The living will is supposed to ... supersede even the wife or a
designated surrogate," said Lauchlin Waldoch, a Tallahassee lawyer
who is on the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys' board of
directors. "This is a very good example why we, as elder-law
attorneys, preach the gospel of coming to see us."

Another expert saw the Pinettes' case as a cautionary example of why
living wills only go so far.

"The health-care surrogate is more powerful in many ways," said Scott
Solkoff, chairman of the elder-law section of the Florida Bar. "In
real life, regardless of what the statutes state, the surrogate is a
real person, not just a piece of paper."

Hanford Pinette's situation mirrors that of Terri Schiavo, the
severely brain-damaged Clearwater woman who has become a cause
celebre for pro-life activists and advocacy groups for the disabled.

In a case that brought attention to living wills, Schiavo collapsed
14 years ago and fell into what doctors say is a deep vegetative
state. While her husband wants Schiavo's feeding tube removed, her
parents say she is well enough to be kept alive.

Schiavo's fate is still working its way through the legal system; the
Pinettes are about to start on the same path.

"It's the same situation," Ruffier said. "But it's the flip side."



http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/10229351.htm?
template=contentModules/printstory.jsp


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----- Original Message -----
From: melissa roxanne
To: news@... ; lsn@... ;
Ron@...
Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:12 PM
Subject: Latest Articles on Hanford "Hank" Pinette's Death


Latest articles on Hanford "Hank" Pinette's death:

http://news.google.com/news?q=%22Hanford+Pinette%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-
8859-1&tab=wn&scoring=d

Note: Many of the latest articles reporting that Hank died are now
stating that he signed his Living Will in 1988, instead of 1998, as
all previous articles have stated. The correct date is December 8,
1998, six years to the day that he was killed. I have proof on
videotape from CNN right before Thanksgiving which showed the Living
Will and the date it was signed, (the same date Hank signed the
Durabe Power of Attorney giving his wife, Alice the ability to make
all medical decisions for him, including life support decisions.

If the above link won't work,
go to http://www.google.com and type in the search box
"Hanford Pinette" with quotes as shown.

Then, click "search". After search results page loads, click
on "News" which appears
just above search box to right. It is not necessary to click
on "Search" again at this point.
It will automatically search for you. This will give you the latest
articles about Hanford Pinette.

Once THAT page of search results loads, click on "Sort by Date", at
top right of page,
(which appears under "Results 1-? of about ? for Hanford-Pinette),
and the articles will be in the correct chronological order.
You can use this method to obtain the latest articles about any
person or subject with Google.

You may also search "Images" to find pictures on Google or
on "Groups" to find groups dedicated to that subject.
First, do a regular search on Google. Then, after search results
page comes up, click on "Images" or "Groups".

Melissa


Central Fla. Man At Center Of Living Will Battle Dies

POSTED: 6:45 am EST December 9, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. -- A Clermont man whose living will led to a hospital
to seek permission from a judge to pull his life support has died
after doctors removed his ventilator.

Hanford L. Pinette, 73, stopped breathing less than two hours after
doctors removed the mechanical breathing apparatus at Lucerne
Hospital on Wednesday, said his wife, Alice Pinette.

"He was trying to breathe on his own," said Alice Pinette, who had
challenged the hospital's attempts to exercise her husband's living
will.


"These people, they actually killed the man," she said. "They know
what they were doing. Hank was alive, mentally. They pulled the plugs
and killed him."

Doctors and officials with Orlando Regional Healthcare System Inc.
said the military veteran was in a terminal state, could not make
decisions for himself and was unlikely to recover. He was being kept
alive by a ventilator, a dialysis machine and medication, they said.

The hospital maintained that Pinette's condition met the terms of his
living will.

In 1998, Hanford Pinette signed a living will stating that death
would be preferable if faced with a terminal illness and incapacity.
Hospital officials said they had no choice but to follow his wishes,
and allow him to die with dignity.

Pinette had also given his wife of more than 50 years durable power
of attorney over his affairs in 1998, including decisions on health
care. During the dispute, Alice Pinette insisted her husband could
communicate and wanted to live.

In November, Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled that the
living will must be upheld or those with power of attorney could
impose their wishes on the incapacitated.

David Evans, the hospital's attorney, said the hospital told Alice
Pinette on Sunday it was planning to remove the ventilator on
Wednesday. Evans told her attorney the next day. No one gave any
indication that the family planned to appeal Kirkwood's ruling, he
said.

"They never said to me, 'Listen we're going to file an appeal.' There
was silence on their decision," said Evans.

"He passed away peacefully and with his family present. You can't ask
for more than that under the circumstances," Evans said.

Alice Pinette and her adult son Ronald both said they taped Hanford
Pinette Wednesday and said the video shows him alert and
acknowledging their presence.

"He wasn't suffering. He kept telling me, 'I want to go home with
you,'" she said. "They were determined to put this man out of this
world, and they did."

Evans said there was a clear difference of opinion between Alice
Pinette and the hospital's medical staff regarding Hanford Pinette's
responsiveness and overall condition.

http://local6.com/news/3983914/detail.html



Florida man at center of living will battle removed from ventilator

ASSOCIATED PRESS
3:15 a.m. December 9, 2004

ORLANDO, Fla. – A man whose living will led a hospital to seek
permission from a judge to pull his life support died after doctors
removed his ventilator.

Hanford L. Pinette, 73, stopped breathing less than two hours after
doctors removed the mechanical breathing apparatus at Lucerne
Hospital on Wednesday, said his wife, Alice Pinette.

"He was trying to breathe on his own," said Alice Pinette, who had
challenged the hospital's attempts to exercise her husband's living
will. "These people, they actually killed the man."

Orlando Regional Healthcare System Inc. said the military veteran was
in a terminal state, could not make decisions for himself and was
unlikely to recover. He was being kept alive by a ventilator, a
dialysis machine and medication.

The hospital maintained that Pinette's condition met the terms of his
living will, which Hanford Pinette signed in 1988. It stated that
death would be preferable if faced with a terminal illness and
incapacity.

Hospital officials said they had no choice but to follow his wishes.

Pinette had also given his wife durable power of attorney over his
affairs in 1998, including decisions on health care. During the
dispute, Alice Pinette insisted her husband could communicate and
wanted to live.

In November, Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Kirkwood ruled that the
living will must be upheld or those with power of attorney could
impose their wishes on the incapacitated.

David Evans, the hospital's attorney, said the hospital told Alice
Pinette on Sunday it was planning to remove the ventilator on
Wednesday. Evans told her attorney the next day.

No one gave any indication that the family planned to appeal
Kirkwood's ruling, he said.

http://signonsandiego.com/news/nation/20041209-0315-livingwill.html


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Note from Melissa, saveterrrislife yahoo group owner:
Hank's wife, Alice Pinette, fought to save his life, and tried her
best to get the truth out to the world that he wanted to live, was
conscious and responsive, up to the end. It seems as though her
attorney may not have done everything he could have done legally to
save Hank's life, according to the above news article. At any rate,
the New World Order and their Death Cults /Doctors / Judges /
Courts / Attorneys / Hospital etc. worked together as a ferocious
killing machine to RAPIDLY KILL Hank very soon after the Judge gave
the go ahead.

I can tell you one thing, I will never have a Living Will. The Death
Cults invented them and the Media / Propagandists highly recommend
them to us all, as mandated by the NWO Killing Machine / The Powers
That Be.

Melissa Roxanne Stanley, Volusia Co. Florida