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Hello,

 

what do you think how many people are damaged in Psychiatry?

Don't forget that John F. Kennedy pushed for the spreading of this

terrorganisation.

 

Randolf Weinand

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<DrLance@j...> wrote:

>

> ------- Forwarded message follows -------

> " Nancy Valko " <nv333@m...>

> <nv333@m...>

> Where are the Kennedys?

> Date sent: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 23:06:51 -0600

>

> Comment: Apparently, this email from Sunday didn't go through so I

am

> resending it. Nancy V. Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:08 AM

> Where are the Kennedys?

>

>

> > Comment: Note this obituatry for Rosemary Kennedy, whose

misguided

> > doctors had recommended a lobotomy that " reduced Rosemary to

an

> > infantlike state, mumbling words and sitting for hours, staring at

> > walls. "

> > Rosemary's situation led the Kennedy family to develop the

> > Special

> > Olympics and promote better opportunities for people with

> > disabilities.

> But

> > where is the Kennedy voice on cases like Terri Schiavo's?

> > I've done internet searches and found nothing so far either way.

> Perhaps

> > the death of his sister could open the hearts of people like Senator

> Kennedy

> > to the life and death struggle of people like Terri. While I don't

> advocate

> > being insensitive and bothering grieving families, Sen. Kennedy's

> > voice would be a powerful one and a real tribute to his obviously

> > much-loved sister. And he is apparently very proud of his

> > legislative record on

> issues

> > affecting people with disabilities.

> > What do you all think?

> > Nancy V.

> > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/08/obituaries/08kennedy.html?

pagewant

> > ed=all Rosemary Kennedy, Senator's Sister, 86, Dies By THE

> > ASSOCIATED PRESS

> >

> > Published: January 8, 2005

> >

> > WASHINGTON, Jan. 7 (AP) - Rosemary Kennedy, a sister of

Senator

> > Edward M. Kennedy who was born mentally retarded and lived

most of

> > her life in an institution after undergoing a lobotomy, died Friday,

> > her family said. She was 86. Ms. Kennedy, the inspiration for the

> > Special Olympics spearheaded by the Kennedy family, had been a

> > patient since 1949 at St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children in

> > Jefferson, Wis. She was the third child and first daughter of Joseph

> > and Rose Kennedy, born a year after her brother John. In 1941,

> > Joseph Kennedy was worried that Rosemary's mild mental

> retardation

> > would lead her into situations that could damage the family's

> > reputation, and he arranged for her to have a lobotomy. She was 23.

> > " Rosemary was a woman, and there was a dread fear of

pregnancy,

> > disease

> and

> > disgrace, " Laurence Leamer wrote in his book " The Kennedy

Women: The

> > Saga

> of

> > an American Family " (Villard Books, 1994).

> > Mr. Leamer wrote that Rosemary, whose retardation possibly

stemmed

> > from brain damage at birth, had taken to sneaking out of the convent

> > where she was staying at the time. Eunice Kennedy Shriver,

> > Rosemary's younger sister, recalled that doctors

> had

> > told her father that a lobotomy, a medical procedure in which the

> > frontal lobes of a patient's brain are scraped away, would help

> > Rosemary. But the operation reduced Rosemary to an infantlike

state,

> > mumbling words and sitting for hours, staring at walls, Mr. Leamer

> > wrote.

> >

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