There are new development so I would hope this threat could be open for discussion.
Jahi McMath: Media links only ***NO DISCUSSION***
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There are new development so I would hope this threat could be open for discussion.
The previous thread for discussion was closed down. Hopefully, it will be reopened or a new one started as this case progresses toward trial. Here is the link for the last closed discussion thread.
https://www.websleuths.com/forums/s...girl-brain-dead-after-tonsil-surgery-9/page37
This Media Only thread is open only for links to new info and no discussion is allowed on it or it could be shut down too. Along with you, I do want to discuss the new developments in this case as well as some of these articles but am sitting on my hands until the discussion thread reopens.
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"... I think of another child written off by the experts here in the U.S.: Jahi McMath, whom medical experts declared brain dead after a routine tonsillectomy gone wrong in 2013. Childrens Hospital Oakland pushed to have all life-sustaining medical treatment terminated; the professionals predicted quick deterioration.
But Jahis mother (a professional nurse), Latasha Nailah Winkfield, refused to give up on her child. California declared Jahi legally brain dead, so with the Schiavo Foundations help, Winkfield moved with her daughter to a long-term care facility in New Jersey.
Medical ethics writer Wesley Smith visited Jahi last fall and reported: At the time of the tragedy, I believed that Jahi was, indeed, dead. But I now have strong doubts. Its nearly four years later, and Jahis body still has not broken down. Her skin remains smooth. There are no foul odors in her room as would be expected when a brain-dead persons body deteriorates. She has experienced no visible bodily decline Disabled is not dead...."
https://yellowhammernews.com/alfie-and-haleigh-and-charlie-and-jahi/
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"... I think of another child written off by the experts here in the U.S.: Jahi McMath, whom medical experts declared brain dead after a routine tonsillectomy gone wrong in 2013. Childrens Hospital Oakland pushed to have all life-sustaining medical treatment terminated; the professionals predicted quick deterioration.
But Jahis mother (a professional nurse), Latasha Nailah Winkfield, refused to give up on her child. California declared Jahi legally brain dead, so with the Schiavo Foundations help, Winkfield moved with her daughter to a long-term care facility in New Jersey.
Medical ethics writer Wesley Smith visited Jahi last fall and reported: At the time of the tragedy, I believed that Jahi was, indeed, dead. But I now have strong doubts. Its nearly four years later, and Jahis body still has not broken down. Her skin remains smooth. There are no foul odors in her room as would be expected when a brain-dead persons body deteriorates. She has experienced no visible bodily decline Disabled is not dead...."
https://yellowhammernews.com/alfie-and-haleigh-and-charlie-and-jahi/
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Jahi McMath, girl at center of brain death debate, has died after surgery, family says
Oakland girl Jahi McMath at center of brain death debate has died after surgery
The girl's mother Nailah Winkfield said Thursday that New Jersey doctors declared McMath dead from excessive bleeding and liver failure after an operation to treat an intestinal issue.
Oakland girl Jahi McMath at center of brain death debate has died after surgery
The girl's mother Nailah Winkfield said Thursday that New Jersey doctors declared McMath dead from excessive bleeding and liver failure after an operation to treat an intestinal issue.
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A family member says a girl at the center of the medical and religious debate over brain death has died after surgery.
The girl's mother Nailah Winkfield said Thursday that New Jersey doctors declared Jahi McMath dead from excessive bleeding and liver failure after an operation to treat an intestinal issue.
McMath had been in a vegetative state since December 2013, when a California coroner ruled that the 13-year-old girl died after suffering irreversible brain damage during an operation to remove her tonsils.
Girl at center of debate over brain death dies after... | Daily Mail Online
The girl's mother Nailah Winkfield said Thursday that New Jersey doctors declared Jahi McMath dead from excessive bleeding and liver failure after an operation to treat an intestinal issue.
McMath had been in a vegetative state since December 2013, when a California coroner ruled that the 13-year-old girl died after suffering irreversible brain damage during an operation to remove her tonsils.
Girl at center of debate over brain death dies after... | Daily Mail Online
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Jahi, may you finally rest in peace you dear girl.
Apparently this is just hitting the news that Jahi "died" a week ago.
Her mother, Nailah Winkfield, said doctors declared McMath dead from excessive bleeding and liver failure after an operation to treat an intestinal issue. She died on June 22, the Bay Area News Group reported.
Jahi McMath, girl at center of brain death debate, has died after surgery, family says
Her mother, Nailah Winkfield, said doctors declared McMath dead from excessive bleeding and liver failure after an operation to treat an intestinal issue. She died on June 22, the Bay Area News Group reported.
Jahi McMath, girl at center of brain death debate, has died after surgery, family says
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...Christopher Dolan, who has worked pro bono for the family since 2013, said the state of New Jersey is issuing a death certificate with all of that information. It includes the new time and date of Jahi’s death...
To him, the second death certificate proves that the original death certificate from California should be annulled...
The family kept the news secret last week out of a desire to mourn and reflect, he added...
He noted, further, that the legal fight over Jahi’s civil rights and humanity is not over. “I’m still going to ask the federal court to void the California death certificate and restore her citizenship,” Dolan said.
Family says Jahi McMath, on life support since being declared brain-dead in 2013, has died
To him, the second death certificate proves that the original death certificate from California should be annulled...
The family kept the news secret last week out of a desire to mourn and reflect, he added...
He noted, further, that the legal fight over Jahi’s civil rights and humanity is not over. “I’m still going to ask the federal court to void the California death certificate and restore her citizenship,” Dolan said.
Family says Jahi McMath, on life support since being declared brain-dead in 2013, has died
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Case of Jahi McMath, girl declared brain-dead, raises judicial issues
Case of Jahi McMath, girl declared brain-dead, raises judicial issues
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Jahi McMath death could have costly implications in civil case against hospital, doctors
"OAKLAND — Jahi McMath’s tragic saga came to an end last week, but the legal battle between her family and the hospital they claim was responsible for her brain damage grew even more heated after her lawyers announced the Oakland teen had been removed from the machines that kept her breathing for nearly five years.
The decision could cost the family millions of dollars in their medical malpractice suit against UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and some doctors, experts say, because the cost of future medical care is a major factor in determining damages...."
Jahi McMath death could cost family millions in legal fight
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Case of Jahi McMath, girl declared brain-dead, raises judicial issues
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Jahi McMath death could have costly implications in civil case against hospital, doctors
"OAKLAND — Jahi McMath’s tragic saga came to an end last week, but the legal battle between her family and the hospital they claim was responsible for her brain damage grew even more heated after her lawyers announced the Oakland teen had been removed from the machines that kept her breathing for nearly five years.
The decision could cost the family millions of dollars in their medical malpractice suit against UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and some doctors, experts say, because the cost of future medical care is a major factor in determining damages...."
Jahi McMath death could cost family millions in legal fight
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Family of Oakland teen Jahi McMath speaks in San Francisco (with clip)
"Jahi's mother, Nailah Winkfield, discussed the ongoing dispute over her daughter's death, saying she has no regrets over her choice to not pull the plug on her daughter...."
Jahi McMath's family speaks out following her death
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Mother of Jahi McMath fights to bury her daughter in Bay Area
"SAN FRANCISCO - The mother of Jahi McMath fought for more than four years to keep her daughter alive, now she is fighting to bury the girl.
McMath, a 17-year-old, former Oakland girl at the center of the medical and religious debate over brain death, was pronounced dead in New Jersey on June 22 from excessive bleeding and liver failure after an operation to treat an intestinal issue. A death certificate was issued that same day.
McMath had previously been declared brain dead after suffering complications during surgery at Children's Hospital in Oakland to remove her tonsils in December 2013. Alameda County issued a death certificate following the medical declaration.
Now, with two death certificates, McMath’s mother, Nailah Winkfield, is entangled in a legal and bureaucratic dispute about which one accurately portrays the circumstances and the exact date of McMath’s death. Winkfield wants the New Jersey certificate honored because she never believed her daughter died in Oakland.
Until the dispute is resolved, a burial permit can’t be issued, said her attorney Chris Dolan...."
Mother of Jahi McMath fights to bury her daughter in Bay Area
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"Jahi's mother, Nailah Winkfield, discussed the ongoing dispute over her daughter's death, saying she has no regrets over her choice to not pull the plug on her daughter...."
Jahi McMath's family speaks out following her death
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Mother of Jahi McMath fights to bury her daughter in Bay Area
"SAN FRANCISCO - The mother of Jahi McMath fought for more than four years to keep her daughter alive, now she is fighting to bury the girl.
McMath, a 17-year-old, former Oakland girl at the center of the medical and religious debate over brain death, was pronounced dead in New Jersey on June 22 from excessive bleeding and liver failure after an operation to treat an intestinal issue. A death certificate was issued that same day.
McMath had previously been declared brain dead after suffering complications during surgery at Children's Hospital in Oakland to remove her tonsils in December 2013. Alameda County issued a death certificate following the medical declaration.
Now, with two death certificates, McMath’s mother, Nailah Winkfield, is entangled in a legal and bureaucratic dispute about which one accurately portrays the circumstances and the exact date of McMath’s death. Winkfield wants the New Jersey certificate honored because she never believed her daughter died in Oakland.
Until the dispute is resolved, a burial permit can’t be issued, said her attorney Chris Dolan...."
Mother of Jahi McMath fights to bury her daughter in Bay Area
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Jahi McMath to be buried in Hayward while fight over her death continues
"...Two lawsuits over the teen’s death are ongoing: a federal civil rights case to nullify her original 2013 death certificate and replace it with a new one issued June 22, and a malpractice case against Children’s Hospital Oakland over a tonsillectomy that her family said was done improperly....
The news conference started late because Dolan was still wrangling with the Alameda County coroner’s office, which he said had denied Jahi’s family a permit to bury the girl. A spokesman from the coroner’s office disputed that account, saying no one had tried to step in the way of the burial.
Jahi’s body is in a funeral home and will be laid to rest in Mount Eden Cemetery on Friday...."
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...Math-gets-approval-to-bury-their-13047928.php
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"...Two lawsuits over the teen’s death are ongoing: a federal civil rights case to nullify her original 2013 death certificate and replace it with a new one issued June 22, and a malpractice case against Children’s Hospital Oakland over a tonsillectomy that her family said was done improperly....
The news conference started late because Dolan was still wrangling with the Alameda County coroner’s office, which he said had denied Jahi’s family a permit to bury the girl. A spokesman from the coroner’s office disputed that account, saying no one had tried to step in the way of the burial.
Jahi’s body is in a funeral home and will be laid to rest in Mount Eden Cemetery on Friday...."
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Report: Jahi McMath’s Brain Showed Some Signs Of Improvement After Brain Death, Doctors Say (with clip)
July 3, 2018
"...Doctors say there were clinical signs she incrementally improved over the five-year span, crossing the line between brain dead and a “minimally conscious state.”...
Several specialists concurred after neurological tests, and a coroner signed a death certificate..."
Report: Jahi McMath's Brain Showed Some Signs Of Improvement After Brain Death, Doctors Say
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July 3, 2018
"...Doctors say there were clinical signs she incrementally improved over the five-year span, crossing the line between brain dead and a “minimally conscious state.”...
Several specialists concurred after neurological tests, and a coroner signed a death certificate..."
Report: Jahi McMath's Brain Showed Some Signs Of Improvement After Brain Death, Doctors Say
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Death is universal, but sometimes murky
"Harvard ethicist Robert Truog discusses why brain death remains controversial 50 years after a Harvard Medical School panel’s landmark report on the condition.
In August 1968, a committee at Harvard Medical School published a landmark document titled “A Definition of Irreversible Coma.” In addition to the traditional way of defining death, in terms of the loss of cardiorespiratory function, the committee suggested a new definition of death — brain death — that focused on the loss of neurological function. The report provided a foundation for the eventual adoption of legislation that established brain death as legal death in all 50 states.
The question of whether brain death is “really” death has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years, due in large part to the case of Jahi McMath, whose brain death was contested by her family for nearly five years, during which time the California girl grew, developed, and even went through puberty. McMath died on June 22, following liver failure.
In a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Harvard bioethicist Robert Truog called attention to how the McMath case highlighted ambiguities around brain death. We spoke to Truog about Harvard’s role in establishing guidelines for the condition, why those guidelines have been controversial, and more.
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Harvard ethicist Robert Truog on ambiguities of brain death
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"Harvard ethicist Robert Truog discusses why brain death remains controversial 50 years after a Harvard Medical School panel’s landmark report on the condition.
In August 1968, a committee at Harvard Medical School published a landmark document titled “A Definition of Irreversible Coma.” In addition to the traditional way of defining death, in terms of the loss of cardiorespiratory function, the committee suggested a new definition of death — brain death — that focused on the loss of neurological function. The report provided a foundation for the eventual adoption of legislation that established brain death as legal death in all 50 states.
The question of whether brain death is “really” death has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years, due in large part to the case of Jahi McMath, whose brain death was contested by her family for nearly five years, during which time the California girl grew, developed, and even went through puberty. McMath died on June 22, following liver failure.
In a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Harvard bioethicist Robert Truog called attention to how the McMath case highlighted ambiguities around brain death. We spoke to Truog about Harvard’s role in establishing guidelines for the condition, why those guidelines have been controversial, and more.
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Harvard ethicist Robert Truog on ambiguities of brain death
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California Brain-Death Standard Debated at 9th Circuit
January 14, 2019
"(CN) – Magnified by a 2016 case in which doctors removed an infant from life support over the parents’ objections, a fight over California’s longstanding standard on brain death sharpened Monday at the Ninth Circuit.
The attorney for Jonee Fonseca, whose child Israel Stinson was deemed brain dead by doctors at several hospitals before being taken off a ventilator, argued the state cleared the way for doctors to end Israel’s life support based on a faulty 1982 law. Matthew McReynolds says the California Uniform Determination of Death Act – called “CUDDA” in Monday’s proceedings – gives doctors the ability to act as “both judge and executioner” and needs to be scrapped by the courts.
“If not now, then when? I don’t know how much more concrete we have to get than the death of this child,” McReynolds asked the three-judge Ninth Circuit panel....
The Ninth Circuit hearing is the latest in a legal challenge that has drawn comparisons to Jahi McMath, a 13-year-old girl who was declared brain dead in California in 2013. McMath’s family refuted the doctors’ determination, citing religious beliefs, and moved the teenager to New Jersey. After over four years of being on life support, McMath died in June 2018....."
California Brain-Death Standard Debated at 9th Circuit
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January 14, 2019
"(CN) – Magnified by a 2016 case in which doctors removed an infant from life support over the parents’ objections, a fight over California’s longstanding standard on brain death sharpened Monday at the Ninth Circuit.
The attorney for Jonee Fonseca, whose child Israel Stinson was deemed brain dead by doctors at several hospitals before being taken off a ventilator, argued the state cleared the way for doctors to end Israel’s life support based on a faulty 1982 law. Matthew McReynolds says the California Uniform Determination of Death Act – called “CUDDA” in Monday’s proceedings – gives doctors the ability to act as “both judge and executioner” and needs to be scrapped by the courts.
“If not now, then when? I don’t know how much more concrete we have to get than the death of this child,” McReynolds asked the three-judge Ninth Circuit panel....
The Ninth Circuit hearing is the latest in a legal challenge that has drawn comparisons to Jahi McMath, a 13-year-old girl who was declared brain dead in California in 2013. McMath’s family refuted the doctors’ determination, citing religious beliefs, and moved the teenager to New Jersey. After over four years of being on life support, McMath died in June 2018....."
California Brain-Death Standard Debated at 9th Circuit
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