Jahi McMath
The ‘death’ of the brain should not decide the fate of the body
By Avi Shafran — February 15, 2024
(RNS) — What is really driving the decision to say a life is over?
Mother of girl declared dead twice slams doctors at funeral
By Paul Elias — July 6, 2018
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Dozens of family members, friends and other mourners filed into a Northern California church for the funeral of a teenage girl at the center of a medical and religious debate over brain death.
5 things to know about death-and-dying debates
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — October 30, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) Brittany Maynard's choice to die prompts a look at the values and vocabulary of death, dying and decisions people make at the end of their days.
Ethicists criticize treatment of brain-dead patients
By Liz Szabo — January 10, 2014
(RNS) Many doctors are questioning continued medical procedures on a 13-year-old girl declared brain-dead nearly a month ago, calling interventions to provide nutrition to a dead body wrong and unethical.
Family, ethics, medicine and law collide in Jahi McMath’s life — or death
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — January 3, 2014
(RNS) A coroner has issued a death certificate for brain dead Jahi McMath, 13. But her mother says she lives and shows "improvement." Ethicists examine the definition of death and the challenges of hope.
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