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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.
On December 9, 2013, 13-year-old Jahi McMath was checked in to Oakland Children’s Hospital in California for a routine tonsillectomy. She had sleep apnea and her parents believed that having her ...
"Jahi died as the result of complications associated with liver failure," her family’s attorney, Christopher Dolan, told CNN. Jahi McMath, California teenager who suffered brain damage following ...
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 ...
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.
Commonwealth v. Twitchell, 416 Mass. 114, 617 N.E.2d 609 (1993), [1] was the most prominent of a series of criminal cases, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in which parents who were members of the Christian Science church were prosecuted for the deaths of children whose medical conditions had been treated only by Christian Science prayer.
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Hmm, yes, that is strange. I think the USCF spokesperson is saying that pediatric neurologists had earlier diagnosed McMath as brain dead and confirmed that diagnosis after viewing the videos. Their confirmation that McMath is brain dead is in contrast to Shewson's declaration that McMath is technically alive.