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Jahi McMath was a thirteen-year-old girl who was declared brain dead in California following surgery in 2013. This led to a bioethical debate engendered by her family's rejection of the medicolegal findings of death in the case, and their efforts to maintain her body using mechanical ventilation and other measures.
The technology that kept Jahi McMath looking alive for five years is one of the first threats to death as we know it, the modern ventilator. Ventilators, which started appearing in hospitals in ...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- The family of a 13-year-old California girl who was declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy says they will sue to keep her on life support. Omari Sealey, the uncle of ...
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- A California judge has ordered a 13-year-old girl declared brain dead to be kept on life support until Jan. 7. Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo on Monday ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2016. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
2 McMath family lawyer. 1 comment. 3 Deletion? 11 comments. 4 Brain death vs brain-death. 2 comments. 5 Updates on what has been done to Jahi's body. 3 comments.
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1 Opinions that Jahi McMath was not a dead body when she was ... 22:16, 10 January 2016 (UTC ... declared the girl technically alive in a June 29, 2017, court filing ...