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To: Mrs. Don-o

Yes, this case is very different from Terri’s case. But, in reading the mother’s court statement, I can understand why she is unwilling to believe the hospital. She says her daughter was experiencing complications after surgery that nurses insisted were normal. Then her daughter went into cardiac arrest. Afterward the doctor(s) came across as heartless and unsympathetic. Now there are other people telling her there is hope (even Terri’s family reportedly has been trying to help her), and her daughter seems alive to her when she visits her. In exactly the same position, I’m sure every single one of us here as mothers would be fighting just as hard.


14 posted on 01/04/2014 11:27:12 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Tired of Taxes
I'm not sure. I had to make the decision to remove my Mother's ventilator at the end, which means that, though grieving, I had to override my emotions and accept the reality that all her systems were shutting down irreversibly and she was dying.

It would have been morally wrong for me to override all reason and insist on tortuously prolonging her dying process as long as possible.

And in Mother's case, she was dying, but not dead.

In this case, the child is dead. The parents are (no doubt inadvertently ) doing moral harm to the hospital staff, I think, in pressuring them to violate their sound ethical decision to stop manipulating Jahi's corpse.


Once again, the whole thing changes if these facts are wrong.

16 posted on 01/04/2014 11:55:14 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Lord, give me a discerning spirit.)
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