Posted on 01/07/2014 9:43:49 AM PST by Drew68
We know my brother's heart saved someone's life. Despite his passing and missing him terribly that gives me some comfort.
She's also getting antibiotics to combat a possible infection.
And what the family refuses to acknowledge is what ALL of the docs have said all along…. her brain is dead, her body is dead. Keeping machines going that pump oxygen into the lungs does not change that fact
Part of them lives on is how I see it.
No. She has been DEAD for 27 days
"some of the people that are saying the mother is holding on long enough for parental negligence in post operation care evidence to disappear. - They are desperate to blame the hospital."
I think the honest issue is that it there are not endless supplies of breathing machines to help living people much less one who is dead.
I can see if it were used a bit to harvest organs for others, but beyond that it is hurting others who need the equipment to monopolize it for a dead person.
That is the other issue, the family does not want to accept she is dead and is that justification to monopolize equipment the living need.
I am sorry for your loss. Your words show an incredible ability to be both compassionate and accurate at the same time. Thank you for sharing with us
I won't pretend to know what is in Jahi's family's hearts and minds - other than the grief they're going through must be excruciating beyond belief. As I said above, no one expects a child to die as a result of a routine surgical procedure that's so common it's literally unthinkable that one could die from it.
I cannot imagine the shock that they must have experienced to put them in the state they're in and I can only hope and pray that I never experience it.
Our family lost my younger brother in August 2012 due to a brain aneurysm. He was literally dead before he hit the floor. While tragic and shocking to our family, I don't think I could compare it to losing a child. A childs death goes against the natural order of things.
What about those who wake-up after years and years in a coma? Is that even possible?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-187920/Coma-man-wakes-19-years.html
This is hilarious!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_nZswGNg74
There are enormous differences between coma, persistent vegetative state, and brain death.
Certain modern medical practices don’t prolong life, they prolong dying. I fail to see that as somehow an advancement.
I agree with you about the poor family, but this was kind of made political because of the endless use of the machine the family wanted.
I respect the loss, pain and all that and the hospitals are made to look cruel as they try to get the machine for other living people, but there are just so many machines like that and there are so many others in need that want a chance for life that could maybe make it.
I do think this is a sad lose / lose situation here.
She's also getting antibiotics to combat a possible infection.
She's getting antibiotics now, in care directed by her family, but there is no definitive declaration in the article that she was getting them at the hospital before she was moved. Read carefully, they let you assume that she was.
Oh my God. How sad.
There is also no definitive declaration that there is an infection.
that is the family’s line
a dead body can’t digest nutrients
nothing about this body was working except oxygenation via machine and heartbeat, eventually the other organs start to rot
Yes the body could absorb nutrition, either parenterally, or via G-tube. Metabolism is still ongoing outside of the brain, or there wouldn’t be debates like this.
The irony is that the longer they keep her on life support, the more difficult it will be for an autopsy to determine what, if anything, the hospital did wrong.
what parental negligence? I don’t think Jahi ever left the hospital.
The family can’t comfort her any more. She left on the 12th of Dec.. As sad as it is, that’s what happened. Her family now should give her body some dignity, lay it to rest and allow others to comfort them.
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