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Judge Greer must be stopped! /sarcasm
What a sad situation.
Looks like this is the way these cases should be handled. Doctors provide the facts and allow the family time to decide.
Then the family does the deciding.
So much better than jerking that child out of the arms of the mother and killing him.
That's where you get the phrase "pulling the plug." Because in this case- all that was done was that they pulled a plug.
``I said in open court,'' he recalled, ``that I felt that a judge could not be asked to make a decision whether someone lives or dies and not go to the bedside of that person.''
Judge Greer didn't see it that way.
This is a sad situation.
Once your brain dead you're dead. No point having a machine fill up your corpse's lungs every few seconds.
I hate dentists.
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I agree with you on that.
The significant difference is that the kid was brain dead, not brain damaged.
There's much to this sad story that isn't reported here. I expect to hear about it again, after the mother sues.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/43079.htm
http://www.nypost.com/commentary/45054.htm
This sounds legitimate. The one loose thread I see is that the family wanted a second opinion, and it's not clear whether they got one or not.
I think getting an independent second opinion in serious medical situations is extremely important, especially since the hospital may have a financial stake in pulling the plug.
"Brain Dead," like "vegetative," is a term that is open to manipulation. But if there was no hope of recovery, then it was right to turn off the machine.
They should have kept him alive for 15 years.
Obviously the ventilator was all that was keeping the boys body alive. His body finally died within 5 minutes. Heartbreaking but in this case they did the right thing. My heart and prayers go out the family.