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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.
Of the twelve viable children known to be delivered from brain dead mothers on prolonged somatic support between 1982 and 2010, the mean gestational age at the time of brain death was 22 weeks and the mean gestational age at delivery was 29.5 weeks, leading to an average length of somatic support for the mothers in the ICU of 7.5 weeks (52.5 days).
A brain-dead 21-year-old mother is being kept alive by machines to give her unborn 6-month-old child a chance to survive Smiling pregnant woman with braces, central to a debate about life support ...
Fighting for Dear Life: The Untold Story of Terri Schiavo and What It Means for All of Us by David C. Gibbs III (2006), ISBN 0-7642-0243-X; Remembering Terri Schiavo: Reflections of a Health Care Warrior by Audrey Ignatoff (2005), ISBN 1-4116-3220-6; Terri's Story: The Court-Ordered Death of an American Woman by Diana Lynne (2005), ISBN 1-58182 ...
Archie Battersbee, a British boy, was the subject of several court hearings between April and August 2022, regarding whether or not to withdraw his life support, after he was found unconscious and subsequently considered to have suffered brainstem death.
They are in denial, the first of five stages parents goes through dealing with a deadbeat child. You're familiar with the stages, the same that one goes through at the passing of a loved one.