Brain Dead Girls Court Case

[brewer]

This child suffered cardiac arrest and subsequent brain death following complications from surgery in 2013. She has been kept alive since that time with medical support. A death certificate was signed shortly after determining that she was brain dead. Brain death has been verified by experts. The family wants the death certificate overturned by federal court so that she may be kept alive.

Read the story. What do you think? Should she be kept alive at the families request or not?

http://abc7.com/news/norcal-mom-continue...g/1135661/

[Cato]

Sad story. I feel for the parents, but think their request is unreasonable. The bit where she desires her child be treated like any other disabled child is particularly bizarre.

[Minimalist]

She has been kept alive since that time with medical support.

Incorrect.  She has been kept dead.

The family is in serious denial.

Dolan says insurance companies are paying for Jahi's nursing care and around-the-clock treatment with a ventilator in New Jersey,

Again, incorrect.  The rate payers are paying.

[bennyboy]

Again, incorrect.  The rate payers are paying.

I'd bet the insurance companies get subsidies or tax breaks for cases like this, too.

[bennyboy]

Sad story. I feel for the parents, but think their request is unreasonable. The bit where she desires her child be treated like any other disabled child is particularly bizarre.

ikr?

My shoe should be treated like any other disabled child, as well.  They have the exact same experience of life.

[ErGingerbreadMandude]

If that's what they want, that's what should be given. There isn't any reason to not give it to them is there?

[Minimalist]

Other than the fact that she is already dead?  No.

But that is enough.

[Catholic_Lady]

It's the family's decision, whatever they wanna do. I don't think it's a matter of morality, since I don't think it would be wrong to keep her alive, OR to pull the plug on her in these circumstances.

Also it's impossible to say, as outsiders looking in, how we personally would handle that situation if it was our own child. No judgement over here.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

This child suffered cardiac arrest and subsequent brain death following complications from surgery in 2013. She has been kept alive since that time with medical support. A death certificate was signed shortly after determining that she was brain dead. Brain death has been verified by experts. The family wants the death certificate overturned by federal court so that she may be kept alive.

Read the story. What do you think? Should she be kept alive at the families request or not?

http://abc7.com/news/norcal-mom-continue...g/1135661/

Only if they pay all charges in full.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

It's the family's decision, whatever they wanna do. I don't think it's a matter of morality, since I don't think it would be wrong to keep her alive, OR to pull the plug on her in these circumstances.

Also it's impossible to say, as outsiders looking in, how we personally would handle that situation if it was our own child. No judgement over here.

It's not like the kid is going to make any kind of recovery.  She should have been terminated a long time ago.