I appreciate the thoughtful answer. Bethesda, MD 20894, Web Policies What it is to us is that public resources are used to keep someone like Jahi "alive." McMath's case drew national attention when her family refused to accept the conclusion of doctors who declared the girl dead in December 2013, when she was 13, after suffering irreversible brain . CNN Jahi McMath, an Oakland teenager whose brain-death following a routine tonsil surgery in 2013 created national headlines, died on June 22, according to the family's attorney. Brain dead people Re generally flaccid because the brain sends no signals. The body decays once oxygen is stopped from perfusing tissue.These results as noted by the true experts indicated that she truly is dead. She is not on life support. Good info to know.In the McMath case the legal proceedings have given us a unique opportunity - to actually see what these scans show in someone with prolonged somatic survival. She will never recover. After hearing his prognosis I think the family may have eased his passage. Both Quinlan and Bland were PVS patients so never would (or could) have had a negative brain flow study. The government involvement in that case was scary. They said she died on June 22, from bleeding due to liver failure and a brain injury caused by lack of oxygen. If a brain dead person is in a hospital until a long term care facility can be found to take them, the hospital often has to eat the costs. As the Wired article states it will tell us more about the brain (and more about the tests). Why is it that she keeps on "living" when Mirranda Grace Lawson, who was only 2, did not? Why continue artificial support while she was coding if brain damage would have been so severe? Jahi was declared brain dead Dec. 12, three days after the operation at Children's Hospital in Oakland, Calif. After the surgery, in the intensive care unit, according to news reports, profuse. Its not like we all look like we just saw the girl from the Ring. I apologise, I didn't get your point. I can only hope they have been taken in by the respective dads' families and are hopefully living a more normal life. At what point does a child's life outweigh money. By Rachel Aviv January 29, 2018 For the past four years, Jahi. Absent some new information - gained from cases like this - we should not apply the new techniques routinely. It was hoped these procedures would provide improved airflow during her sleep at night. I mean seriously, what is it to keep her alive .50 a year out of the millions of tax payers pockets? Jahi McMath, can you move? - RenewAmerica