I definitely agree with compassion and understanding. I think hers is a grief reaction. But I don't know that more time would help, and I can't say for sure what the hospital did/did not do. There's a reasonable accommodation time for families to come to grips, but if the family can't afford to pay the bills for weeks and weeks of time to accept the reality (and honestly, do we want to ask them to pay for that?) and the hospital is losing hundreds of thousands waiting for reality to sink in, I'm not sure we can just wait for time to heal. And in this situation, NW has said she won't ever believe it until Jahi's heart stops.
For a personal story, when my grandfather died we had to make a choice to stop extraordinary measures. Just before he seriously deteriorated, he told my father he was ready to die and was tired of suffering. When my family made the choice, my grandmother was incredibly upset. We talked long and hard to her about it and how this wasn't what he wanted, he had told us in his own words, etc. She let my father make the decision, and to this day she maintains he wasn't ready to die. But he was. He really truly was. But she was his wife and she couldn't accept that. We ultimately decided we had to do what he would have wanted, but five years later, she hasn't accepted that. I honestly believe if it was up to her, he would still be on life support. We're saddened that she can't accept it but know we did the right thing for him.
This case is even beyond that because she is deceased. But my point was, sometimes the people closest can't make the decision that might be for the best.
