[Popman]

If she is really brain dead....pull the plug and let nature take it’s course....

There is the chance you may breath on her own....it’s happened before...

[House Atreides]

“If she is really brain dead....pull the plug and let nature take it’s course....

There is the chance you may breath on her own....it’s happened before...”
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Yes, that (i.e., breathing on her own) can and frequently does happen for patients in a coma or a “persistent vegetative state”. I don’t think it happens for patients once brain death has happened.

[miserare]

“There is the chance you may breath on her own....it’s happened before.”

Yes...I remember Karen Quinlan.

This is a terrible tragedy, but by all modern reckoning, the child is dead.

She would have been declared so 1/2 hour after surgery, 70 years ago.