[SoFloFreeper]

So who wants to kill the little black girl in this case? The hospital? The state?

[Red in Blue PA]

Under CA law, the hospital as the right to pull the plug w/o the families permission! I was shocked to hear that.

So much for the compassionate left.

[Wolfie]

Who is paying for the care?

[JPG]

--So who wants to kill the little black girl in this case?--

The little black girl is already deceased. Brain death has occurred and no amount of anything will change that.

[Nifster]

No one wants to ‘kill’ this child. This child is already long gone. Pull the ventilator and it will become readily apparent

[fatima]

I was hoping they would get involved.

[BykrBayb]

I've resisted pinging Terri's List, because this appears to be a case of a dead body being kept fresh on life support. At least that's the picture the media has painted. I haven't seen anything offered by her family, or anyone else, which would bring that assessment into question.

Now that Terri Schiavo's family is openly supporting the family's position, I've decided to ping the list. I don't have enough information to cause me to doubt the claim that she's dead, but I hope some open discussion will bring some answers. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[exDemMom]

Are there any FReeper physicians who can comment on this case? I suspect that without central nervous system feedback, it is only a matter of time before organ failure sets in and the respirator becomes ineffective anyway, but I do not know. I’d love to hear from someone who has experience with artificially keeping functions going in a dead body.

I feel for the family, but prolonging the time the corpse is oxygenated won’t bring the girl back and just makes the situation psychologically more difficult for the other family members.

This is NOT another Terri Schindler. Terri was actually alive and healthy.

[DCBryan1]

People are ignorant on the difference between a comotose patient and a brain dead patient. Someone in a coma (a vegetative state) can have many brain functions and with or without mechanical support.

Someone who is brain dead is dead. Their brain cannot metabolize, produce hormones, regulate body temperature, etc. There is an an exhaustive list of medical tests and procedures, (the most accurate and certain are the EEG/EKG, and radioactive isotope tests that detect blood flow into the brain) that three (3) independent doctors have gone through with Jhai.

She is brain dead, there is no recovery. Even on life supporting equipment, she will die very soon as the body cannot exist without the brain for very long, even with our wonderful medical technology.

What is sad is that she could be an organ donor and save more lives, but with the time that has passed, her organs will probably be non-donatable.

Here is a non layman article on coma vs. brain death to help readers to become educated on the two very different medical definitions.

Prayers for the little girl. Her soul is in Heaven, her body dead here.

[goodwithagun]

If what we are being told by the media is true, this is not even close to the Terri Schiavo case. Terri was very much alive and this poor soul is not. The family needs psychological help, and as a mother I cannot even imagine what they are going through. I'd lose my mind if I lost one of my babies. I can't help but think that they are demanding this because of their own guilt. This child underwent surgery for a problem that could have possibly been eliminated by healthy eating and exercise. If weight loss did not alleviate the problem then the surgery could have been considered. This family wanted a quick fix, but anesthetizing a small body and then carving out body parts comes with a lot of risks. I've also noticed that they don't want to take her home and take care of her, they want her in a facility. They want somebody else to take care of the child. This whole case is heart breaking and disturbing.

[DoodleDawg]

So who wants to kill the little black girl in this case? The hospital? The state?

She's already dead by any rational definition of the term.

[Wicket]

The questions I have are:
Who benefits most from pulling the plug - I suspect it’s the hospital that screwed up. I read elsewhere, but haven’t independently sourced, that this is the second oopsie from a tonsillectomy. They will end up paying for this girl’s care until the plug is pulled.

Because of that, is the hospital telling the truth. Because of their financial interest, I’m not sure I trust them.

Our culture loves to pull the plug, even if someone is neither dying nor dead - see Terri Schiavo’s story. And young people can recover from severe brain injuries and sometimes miracles occur.

It does no harm to put her in long term care temporarily. The hospital just doesn’t want to pay the freight. They are refusing to do minor surgery to enable her to be moved - that self-righteous “we don’t do surgeries on dead people” would have gone away pretty quick if she was an organ donor.