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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/35267/full/35267/canadian-man-who-was-the-focus-of-legal-battle-dies/ <br /><br /> <b>Canadian man, who was the focus of legal battle, dies</b> <br /> Friday, June 27, 2008 | by <br /><br /><p>An elderly Jewish man at the center of a Canadian debate over right-to-life issues has died.<br /><br /> Samuel Golubchuk, 84, of Winnipeg, died of natural causes June 24. <br /><br /> He had been on life support since November 2007. Doctors said he had virtually no chance of recovering and wanted to remove his ventilator and feeding tube.<br /><br /> His case made headlines when Golubchuk’s Orthodox family took the hospital to court. In February, they were granted an injunction forcing doctors to keep him alive.<br /><br /> Citing Jewish law, the family argued that removing Golubchuk from his ventilator and feeding tube would be tantamount to murder.<br /><br /> Three doctors resigned from the hospital over the case, with one commenting that he felt keeping the elderly man alive was “tantamount to torture.”<br /><br /> A trial over the matter was set to begin in mid-September.<br /><br /> “No one took him off life support. God did and that’s what [the family was] fighting for,” said family lawyer Neil Kravetsky. — jta</p> <p> </p>

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