You have no intimate knowledge of this case, you are commenting based on internet news articles and “statements” put out by the hospital reps. Get off of the “corpse” comments... how cold is your heart?
Several physicians have examined her and performed the rigorous, several component protocol for determining brain death. Even the independent physicians hired by the family came to the same conclusion, that she is brain dead. I trust their judgment--after all, they have been trained and have experience with this.
Brain death is not a coma--the brain is literally dead and decomposing. By now, what remains inside the skull probably has little resemblance to a brain. When the brain died, everything that was Jahi died. What is on the ventilator *is* a corpse. All that has been achieved by keeping the body ventilated is that the decay process has been slowed down--not stopped, but slowed. Death is not reversible.
As a woman with a lot of compassion and warm heart, I am utterly appalled by this situation. I see a family in deep denial who has been horribly misserved by the justice system. When the judge ruled that the body can stay indefinitely on a ventilator and that the family can even remove it from the hospital, this case entered horror movie territory. At this point, I am not sure that the denial will end when the heart stops beating. This family needs counseling, not some condescending judge who is afraid to put his foot down to stop a horrific situation.