BuzzieCat
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My primary problem with this is that I can't see society having to spend what could be millions of dollars to sustain the body of a person who has been pronounced brain dead by 6 experts when there are living people out there who could be healed or at least palliated by proper medical care, yet they don't get it because of money and insurance issues.
I have no doubt that Jahi's family is devastated and shocked by what has occurred and of course they are. However, I don't feel that they have the right to go to such extremes to put off the inevitable. There has got to be some other kind of mental health treatment that would be more effective than this. People suffer all kinds of devastating losses, but society doesn't usually move heaven and earth to give them the illusion that their loss hasn't occurred. That's what this is, an illusion.
I have no doubt that Jahi's family is devastated and shocked by what has occurred and of course they are. However, I don't feel that they have the right to go to such extremes to put off the inevitable. There has got to be some other kind of mental health treatment that would be more effective than this. People suffer all kinds of devastating losses, but society doesn't usually move heaven and earth to give them the illusion that their loss hasn't occurred. That's what this is, an illusion.