Pain of publicity intrudes on comfort for the dying

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Pain of publicity intrudes on comfort for the dying
DAVID KARP and CURTIS KRUEGER
Published March 22, 2005

PINELLAS PARK – As 73-year-old Thomas Bone prepared to die from incurable cancer, he had one wish.
He did not want to die alone, his family said.
So when a nurse at Hospice House Woodside told Bone’s granddaughter to come Friday night, she ran from her room in the nearby family living quarters. She had no time to change out of her pajamas, and no time to grab her wallet.
If Jennifer Johnson had not been at the hospice where Terri Schiavo lives, she could have reached her grandfather quickly.
Instead, an officer stopped her and demanded identification – even though she says he had seen her come and go regularly. She called out to a hospice employee who vouched for her. Then she had to go through a metal detector.
“The whole time I’m telling him, “My grandfather is dying right now, I have to go,”‘ Johnson said. The whole thing took three to four minutes, she said.
When Johnson reached her grandfather’s room, which was two doors down from Schiavo’s room, a nurse told her it was one minute too late.

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