Why do some people think they're in charge when they're not?

[hobbit709]

Just talked to a friend of mine. She was with her best friend yesterday when her friend had a heart attack. They had her on life support at the hospital but she was brain dead. My friend went over to her friend's house to get her address book so she could call her brother so he could come and make the decisions. While she was doing that, two other people showed up at the hospital and said they were her sisters and said to pull the plug.
My friend got back to the hospital to tell them the brother was on his way to make the decision. big stink at the hospital-police are now involved.
Then one of the two asked my friend for the house key so they could go over there-she told her the only person getting that key was the brother-another scene.

what is it that death sometimes brings out the worst?

[HopeHoops]

1. "I'm in charge here" - wasn't that Alexander Haige?

[geardaddy]

10. Yep. I remember that.

[NightWatcher]

12. I too was expecting Al Haig when I clicked

[suninvited]

2. I can't tell who in the story you are

complaining about as trying to take charge. The friend, the sisters, the brother?

This is why it is important to have a living will.

[hobbit709]

3. I'm a good friend of the woman who died's best friend.

I'm just torqued about the two who misrepresented themselves at the hospital and made a decision that they had absolutely no authority to make. And then tried to justify it.

[jobycom]

4. Were they her sisters of not?

If not, I'd think the police would definitely be involved. They and the hospital who didn't verify should both be punished.

If they were her sisters, then that's a family matter I'd stay away from.

[suninvited]

5. I agree

if they werent sisters and tried to make that call, I would call the police, too!!

[hobbit709]

6. They were NOT her sisters-in fact the woman had no sisters.

That's why the police got involved.

[jobycom]

9. Wow.

I mean, a harsh interpretation of the law (and this is Texas, so that happens) could see that as a brand of homicide.

[JonLP24]

7. So who were they to the friend with the heart attack?

If they weren't her sisters, then who were they to her? The relationship I mean.

It just seems odd that non-relatives would insist on pulling the plug & asking for house keys(not saying i don't believe it as stranger things have happened).

[hobbit709]

8. "Friends."

[elleng]

11. Not just death.

One of my daughters does this, while horribly upsetting her sister and angering me. Wonder if her father, who had surgery, (or her husband) will ever set her straight.'