Winnipeg, Canada – Samuel Golubchuk’s lawyer says a lawsuit commenced by the family prior to his death at Grace Hospital will proceed.
Neil Kravetsky says there are portions of the claim still alive. They involve claims for damages, breach of contract, assault and battery, and breach of various provisions of the charter and human rights legislation.
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But Kravetsky says the most important issue is the injunction, and whose decision it was or is will not be decided.
He says he believes it will be academic.
Are the sepsis or other lackings in his getting the best care part of the suit?
If the family got what it wanted, and their father died a natural death, doesn’t their claim for damages now indicate greed, rather than religious conviction or care for their father?
Bewildered – I am BEWILDERED At your statement! GREED?!?!?! The family just went through gehinnom protecting their father from a bunch of roitzchim, and you call their motivations greed?!?!?!!? HAve you lost your mind?!?!?! If the lawsuit will protect 1 more yid, 1 more human, from enduring the suffering that they went through, dayeinu!
Amen Avi!
No. Its just greed.
And their fathers death shows that they were LYING while they told the press their father was “improving”. The doctors clearly had it right. At least the poor man didn’t have to lie in bed until September. Thank God for that.
If the lawsuit is simply about protecting others, fine. That has some merit. If it is demanding money, then that’s greed.
The family spent all its money trying to keep alive their awake father, frum from birth, and is nearly destitute. Meanwhile, in Canada, the law is that the party which withdraws or loses a case must pay for all the expenses of the other side (which in this case is the government), so the only way they could withdraw and not become homeless would be for the government side to make a settlement, which has been offered by the family and repeatedly suggested.
Further, the family wishes to protect other Jews and non-Jews from the medical establishment in Manitoba, which deems involuntary euthanasia (killing of the disabled) as one of the highest ethical acts a doctor can do.
For anyone to conclude that their exemplary reaction and behavior in this case represents greed, particularly people who post on this frum web site, is unfathomable. Such false accusations cause tremendous agmas nefesh to the family of a man who volunteered at age 16 to fight the Nazis, maintaining kashrut in the trenches in France while in battle.
But the types of people who post malicious comments in this space no nothing of battle of any sort. The most they can do is battle a frum family trying against all odds to do the right thing.