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09-09-2017 03:47 PM
As much as I cannot agree with this mother, it is her religious beliefs that keep her from believing her daughter is dead. From what I've read, she does not expect her to wake up and lead a normal life. She believes as long as her heart is beating she is alive.
09-09-2017 04:13 PM
These decisions need to be made by qualified medical experts, not by a judge or jury. In this case, it's clear the poor girl is clinically brain dead. I don't think valuable medical resources should be spent on her care. If her family is hoping for a miracle, it would happen regardless of whether she was hooked up to machines. There comes a time when family can't make medical decisions. What if a family decides a loved needs repeated surgeries or inappropriate medications?
09-09-2017 05:05 PM
@ALRATIBA wrote:
@suzyQ3 wrote:
@ALRATIBA wrote:
Daily Mail article dated May 17, 2011. By Kate Allatt
Headline: "Doctor said I was brain dead, I wanted to scream, but all I could do is blink"
@ALRATIBA, can you please provide a link so that I can read it? That headline sounds as if it would fit right in on the National Enquirer or other tabloids I see when I'm in the checkout line.
Just google the headline ... it comes right up. It's a UK newspaper, The Daily Mail ... health column. Lots of other articles come up.
There a belief among some that some doctors are in a rush to declare brain death so they can harvest organs.
@ALRATIBA, is the above italized sentence your words or from the article?
09-09-2017 05:06 PM
I'm sorry, @goldensrbest.
09-09-2017 06:22 PM
@muttmom wrote:As much as I cannot agree with this mother, it is her religious beliefs that keep her from believing her daughter is dead. From what I've read, she does not expect her to wake up and lead a normal life. She believes as long as her heart is beating she is alive.
Whether my opinion about the mother's religious beliefs is right or wrong to others I feel that if she is a true believer she would allow the machines to be disconnected and let Jahi's heart beat on its own or stop beating. There is nothing sacred about mechanically keeping a heart beating to make a claim of life. Understandably she does not want to let go.
09-09-2017 08:25 PM
What happens when Jahi becomes 18? Does the state have the power to decide?
09-10-2017 09:38 AM
@missy1 That is a good question, I wonder if becoming 18 changes anything in regards to her care?
09-10-2017 11:15 AM
@CAcableGirl2 wrote:@missy1 That is a good question, I wonder if becoming 18 changes anything in regards to her care?
I don't think so @CAcableGirl2 and @missy1, at least not in IL. We recently went through this with my young adult niece. The family still made all decisions as to when to remove life support, though there was no dispute in this case.
09-10-2017 11:20 AM - edited 09-10-2017 11:21 AM
Won't this create a dangerous precedent? What if someone's elderly father was in a vegetative state but the kids wanted him alive on life support. Where is the line drawn?
09-10-2017 11:30 AM
I would think that IF the elderly father had made his wishes known via a living will, and other official documents, that that would supersede whatever the adult kids wanted.
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