With the arrival of Peak Oil, the curtain has closed on Act 1 of the drama Petroleum Man. What will happen in Act 2? Chekhov said, "If there's a gun on the wall at the beginning of the play, by the end it must go off." In the world's nuclear arsenal are many guns on the wall. If life copies art, will there be an Act 3 in which the players, having learned their lesson the hard way, live sustainably? To explore these and other questions... FTW's Act 2 Blog. Read, comment, take heart! Orkin
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ST is 19 years old. Despite a school career in mainstream education where she was studying for her A levels, she has spent the past year as a patient in an intensive care unit run by the Hospital Trust which brings this application. She has a rare mitochondrial disorder which is a progressively degenerative disease. According to the expert1 evidence which is before the court, there is no cure which might enable ST to resume her life outside the clinical setting of the intensive care unit. She is mechanically ventilated through a tracheostomy. She is fed through a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube and is currently undergoing regular haemodialysis. Her disease has resulted in a number of related health problems including impaired sight and hearing loss, chronic muscle weakness, bone disease and chronic damage to her kidneys and lungs.
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The collective view of her treating hospital clinicians is that ST is now in, or fast approaching, the final stage of her life. In February this year, as her condition appeared to worsen, the Trust issued these proceedings to determine the validity of a lasting power of attorney which ST had apparently signed some three months earlier and, specifically, to seek declarations in relation to her capacity and her future medical treatment.
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