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Brain Dead Girls Court Case
December 25, 2015 at 8:22 pm
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/
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RE: Brain Dead Girls Court Case
December 25, 2015 at 8:39 pm
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.
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RE: Brain Dead Girls Court Case
December 26, 2015 at 12:28 am
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?
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RE: Brain Dead Girls Court Case
December 26, 2015 at 1:20 am
Other than the fact that she is already dead? No.
But that is enough.
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RE: Brain Dead Girls Court Case
December 26, 2015 at 1:27 am
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.
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