Terris’ list ping
I’ve met Jahi’s Mom! Have heard the whole story personally. So glad her Mom fought for her.
How about the “Brain Dead” GOP in Congress? What did the judge have to say about that?
Prior to the relatively new standard called "brain death," person was not deemed to be dead until after his or her heart had stopped beating for a certain number of minutes.
This displeased the transplant industry, because desirable organs could begin to deteriorate while the patient's heart continued to beat.
Now, with the changed standard, a "transplant team" can begin to "harvest" a person's organs while he or she is still very much alive, by the prior standard.
It's my understanding that the "organ harvesting" process often involves no anesthesia, and that the unanesthetized person's body thrashes around violently in reaction to the transplant team's knives. We are supposed to believe that the person who is "brain dead" feels nothing - even though his or her body is reacting strongly to the assault. According to the industry, "It's only reflexes." That's the same phrase that was applied to Terri Schiavo to dismiss her reactions to her parents.
This has nothing to do with the wishes of the family to give the child a life. It has to do with a lawsuit they filed.
In the article from the East Bay Times, it states:
“An attorney for the family is arguing Jahi is alive and therefore entitled to more than the cap of $250,000 on medical malpractice lawsuits involving children who die as a result of surgery.”
It has nothing to do with the welfare of the child or the determination of quality of life. It has to do with the courts awarding more money to the family using a loophold in the law.
They should be embarrassed.
rwood
We have spoken about the McMath case before. She was treated in the California Bay Area, at the Oakland Children’s Hospital, not far from the cluster of pharmacies they used to call “Pill Hill”.
My reactions are the same; It could be that I will never have the same depth of understanding as many, since I have no children, but to me, what this girl is now experiencing is not really ‘a life’. We’ll see where this goes.