RIP Jahi.
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Jahi McMath RIP
Many of us would not be here except for having “unreasonable” mom’s like Jahi’s. There’s no doubt that I would not.
Reasonableness is a lot to ask of a parent faced with losing a child.
God bless this family.
can’t imagine the Hell that Mother has gone through. Prayers for her and the rest of the family.
RIP.
I remember following this for awhile. I couldn’t get over the fact a young girl went brain dead from a tonsillectomy. Her mom never gave up. I remember hoping for a miracle but since that could not be thankfully she is at total rest now.
She died 4.5 years ago. It is a disgrace what they did to the poor girl. R.I.P.
Now...let's go back....wasn't excessive bleeding what she died of in the first place.
Get a clue docs...something was wrong with her system...
McMath was declared dead in December 2013 when she was 13 after suffering irreversible brain damage during routine surgery in California to remove her tonsils and a coroner signed a death certificate.
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I’ve seen a comment saying it was more than a simple tonsil removal. I wonder if that’s true.
Too many cases where "medical science" wants to terminate a life for convenience and cost but this seems to be a case of keeping the soul hostage for earthly concerns.
The real tragedy is that the hospitalists etc did not react to the bleeding once it was discovered. Both my granddaughters had tonsillectomies- one a few years back at age 3, the other last year at age 5, the first one had a knife blade surgery, lots of pain and discomfort, the second had coblation ( radio frequency)- not a drop of blood, two or three days of discomfort and no issues. Big difference in risk.
I'm not sure I can articulate the difference --- anyone who can, should jump in and explain better.
I'll try. It's because every person alive needs food and water "with assistance" so to speak, whether that assistance means, cooking, suckling an infant, spoon-feeding, straw-feeding, tube-feeding, hydration via IV. Another way to put it is, all food is both an absolute survival requirement and a "human solidarity activity" and all intentional cessation of food/fluids will cause death by starvation/dehydration.
That's why denying food with the intention of causing or speeding-up death, is wrong. Even for a dying or severely disabled person, food is not "treatment", even if it's by tube. It's "ordinary care."
(Only exception of a dying person simply can't tolerate food/fluids anymore.) OTOH, even though respiration is also essential for survival, it is not inherently an "assisted activity." If a person can't breathe on their own, a ventilator is always a special intervention. If the person is in such a state that it's futile, removing it is not murder.
It could get more dicey in individual cases, but I think there really is a distinction between "assisted feeding" and "assisted breathing."
Does that make sense?
Very sad.
Prayers to the McMath family and RIP to Jahi...
Just saw this news appear on Bing’s news. The news appears when Bing first comes up.
It’s 7:50 PM. My net’s down. Trying again.