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DyllanS


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Jahi McMath, a 13-year-old girl on a ventilator who was declared brain dead by California doctors after tonsil surgery, was released from a hospital to her mother Sunday night -- apparently setting the stage for her family to transfer her to a facility willing to continue her care.

The move ends one chapter of a weekslong struggle between Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland, which sought to remove Jahi from the ventilator after it and a judge concluded she was brain dead, and her relatives, who fought in court to keep her on life support and contended she showed signs of life.

The hospital released Jahi on Sunday to the Alameda County coroner, who then released her to her mother's custody, said David Durand, the hospital's chief of pediatrics. The hospital had previously said it needed the coroner's consent for the transfer because Jahi was legally dead.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/06/health/jahi-mcmath-girl-brain-dead/index.html?hpt=hp_t2



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Based on the evidence that was provided in the article it does seem like Jahi is truly brain dead and the family is holding onto a sense of hope that is admirable but futile...

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I am very sorry for the family and their daughter. I'm not sure if it's best to keep her on life support when she's brain dead, but miracles do happen. Who knows? Maybe something will change in this family's situation. 



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she seems to be pretty dead, isee no way in someone coming back form that.

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I think the family is having a lot of trouble coping with the situation and sadly, I don't think she will ever recover.

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The family is not ready to move on, trying to create whatever hope they can. It's sad to see a family like this.

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I think that the family is having trouble accepting that their loved one is no longer with them. It is a very hard situation because if they take her off life support they will forever wonder if she might have come back. We can rationally determin that a recovery is not going to happen but I'm sure for the family it is harder for the mto not hold on to some sense of hope. The fact that the coroner had to be contacted though should probably indicate that the girl should be taken off life support.

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The family just needs to let her go and move on. The longer they keep her on life support the more money they will be spending on someone who is already dead and cannot ever recover.

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i agree that the family isn't ready to move on yet, and it would be easier to just let her go. it would cause them more pain and suffering just hoping she'll come back to life even though she can't recover.

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The family needs to move on. It is a waste of resources, and in all honesty, kind of creepy.

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i think if she is brain dead there is no reason for her to be on life support, but i have never had a family member that is brain dead so i cant really say what the "right" choice should be. it just seems logical to take her off life support and set her free.

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I agree with SassySmith, she should have been released from her pain, she isnt even the same girl they knew she is just a shell with no one piloting. I find it to be a very sad situation and that the family should have let her pass on.

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It is a terrible and sad thing to go through. And the family has so much hope. But the fact that she is brain dead, I see no reason to leave her on life support. Financially and mentally, it will be hard on the family if they continue.

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Its do hard to just give up on a family memeber.. he family is going to keep fighting for her life for aslong as they can, i think

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