Young poor girl whether she's in Uganda or in Oakland doesn't make any difference. She may have been declared clinically dead per the doctors who want to save their careers but not biologically dead nor in eternity yet. Get real! She's still on ventilator. What if she'll ended up recuperating? Will the doctors who attended her and the coroner keep their jobs, they're probably all too nervous.
She is dead. This condition is irreversible.
Here is a video of a physician explaining brain death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffqz-vKZO5Q
I like his statement starting at 5:06. He explains that the body appears lifelike because there are two kinds of death involved. “It’s important to recognize the difference between an organism and an organ. The human being, the organism, is dead, but the organs, such as the heart, are being kept alive for a few more days, giving the appearance of a sleeping person. A brain-stem dead patient is not a person suffering from brain-stem death—he is dead.”
As a scientist, I have worked with cell lines removed, in some cases, from dead humans or animals. The cell lines will live indefinitely as long as they are kept warm, fed, and sterile, and provided with sufficient carbon dioxide. The Hela cell line was taken from a woman who died in the early 1950s. The cells are alive, but she is not.
This little girl, Jahi, died on Dec. 12. What is going on now is more fitting to a Steven King novel than real life. The judge who has allowed the family to keep her corpse ventilated is irresponsible.