Brain Dead Girls Court Case

[TheRealJoeFish]

I'm quite flabbergasted that others think they have a say in what that family do.

To some extent, I agree with you. I wouldn't want to tell the family they're grieving wrong, or that their beliefs are dumb. (I'd just make sure they knew their beliefs were not medically sound, and suggest to them that keeping her body alive like this is a rather undignified end to a too-short life.)

But how much money should be paid to keep a body, minus the brain, alive? Millions? Each year? We would need to extend the option to everyone. What if it put a company out of business? People out of work? Or doubled the cost of medication for social security recipients who have the same insurance as that girl?

Ultimately, there has to be a point (maybe not immediately, but after, say, two weeks of brain death) at which the insurance companies simply cannot be made to continue paying and at which health care providers simply cannot be made to devote major resources to a lost cause. The horrible thing, that girl's death, has already happened. By far the most fair, just outcome would be to pull the plug.