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To: Westlander

The teen was removed from life support systems and died. While the condition had worsened removing a person from life support spells almost certain death.


5 posted on 12/21/2007 8:02:20 PM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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To: weegee
The teen was removed from life support systems and died. While the condition had worsened removing a person from life support spells almost certain death.
People are removed from life support when they have suffered brain death. Otherwise everyone could be kept "alive" indefinitely with modern technology.

I personally leave the blame with insurance company legal hair splitting. The UCLA doctors were able to quote survival rates for this procedure. Just what qualifies a procedure to be "non-experimental"? Maybe it's well reasoned decisions by insurance company bureaucrats.

17 posted on 12/22/2007 5:03:45 PM PST by 21stCenturyFreeThinker
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