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In reply to the discussion: Jahi McMath: Terri Schiavo group secretly leading transfer efforts [View all]MsPithy
(809 posts)She is not breathing on her own. Her autonomic nervous system is keeping her heart beating. When the ventilator is turned off, the oxygenated blood that is keeping her body functions working will stop. She will begin to decompose. Short of jesus appearing in her room and turning her brain back on and repairing the damage done to her brain when it was without oxygen, there is no miracle that can help her. She is dead.
When the electrical impulses in the brain stop, which can be measured very easily, that is the universally accepted definition of being dead.
As we said yesterday, Terri Shaivo was in a persistent vegetative state. She did breath on her own. She was not brain dead.
Jahi's poor family is being treated incredibly cruelly. It is perfectly understandable that they are wishing with all their hearts for their girl to be miraculously healed. It is despicable that such wicked people are taking advantage of the family's pain. Anyone who is telling them that she should be kept on the ventilator because there might be a miracle, should roast in hell.