Ping!
Many years ago my father had a stroke. His heart stopped beating and the emergency room doctors got it going again with the electro-shock paddles. For the next 10 days he lay in the intensive care section of St. Elizabeth’s with only an IV tube providing nourishment. He was breathing on his own, but had no other responses. He was in a vegetative state. I went into a stoic mode to be a stable source for my mother who was completely distraught. I found myself praying for his final death to relieve my mother’s suffering, because I knew that my father was not inside any more. I don’t know if there was the term ‘brain dead’ ever mentioned. Stopping the IV fluid was not discussed or brought up.
For Jahni’s case, the decision is for her parents, not the hospital.