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Forgot how I ended up at this story: \u00a0\u201cMother of brain-dead Jahi McMath says daughter is \u2018still sleeping\u2019<\/a>\u201d but \u00a0I am still following this and curious as to how it ultimately plays out. \u00a0In her latest interview, the mother said,<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t use the word \u2018brain dead\u2019 for my daughter. I\u2019m just waiting and faithful that she will have a recovery. . . . She is blossoming into a teenager before my eyes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0Of course, the article gave no specific indicators of any progress or changes at all, really. \u00a0Does \u201cblossoming into a teenager\u201d mean that she is actually growing? \u00a0It seems unlikely, and far more likely that the mother sees what she wants to see.<\/p>\n

But nonetheless, one presumes that, as in the cases of brain-dead women maintained on life support while an unborn child grows, she continues to appear to be \u201calive\u201d with the ventilator, feeding tubes, etc., maintaining a visual appearance of health. \u00a0And the commenters ignorantly claim that the body is decomposing and the family is caring for a rotting stench of a corpse.<\/p>\n

I admit that I\u2019m just plain curious as to the final outcome \u2014 let\u2019s consider this as an experiment (which, if she is dead in a physiological and spiritual\/moral sense, if there\u2019s no \u201csoul\u201d there anymore, is no worse, ethically, than what\u2019s done to a body donated to science), if nothing else, to answer the question of how long a brain-dead body can be maintained. \u00a0I\u2019m also taking it for granted that the family and their supporters are honorable and honest enough that, at whatever point the mechanical systems cannot maintain the body\u2019s functioning, they will not pretend otherwise.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Forgot how I ended up at this story: \u00a0\u201cMother of brain-dead Jahi McMath says daughter is \u2018still sleeping\u2019\u201d but \u00a0I am still following this and curious as to how it ultimately plays out. \u00a0In her latest interview, the mother said, I don\u2019t use the word \u2018brain dead\u2019 for my daughter. 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