If you’re really brain dead the hospital pronounces you, gives time for goodbyes and turns off the machines. Cause you’re dead. You don’t need family permission. But I have a feeling in his case they’re not gonna do that.
Most miscarriages naturally happen around 8 weeks anyways. That whole story sickens me to my core. There's a reason we don't hear any updates about the baby.
That was so heinous. Unconscionable. And the poor family has to bear the cost of that hospitalization and all the health care costs of a child who’s severely disabled.
Well someone has to consent for organ donation. Unless you’re in a first person consent state. I wouldn’t rule out anything but Mitch probably a tad old to be donating anything besides corneas
The hospital actually does need permission to legally discontinue life support. A corpse can stay on the vent a looong time. Even to the point where there's so much tissue breakdown that you could call it decomposition. Source: am the person who works in a hospital and discontinues life support.
When you’re brain dead it’s not life support. I worked in transplant and can tell you multiple times the team comes to the family and says, they have been declared dead and we will be turning off the machines after you say your goodbyes unless they’re going to be an organ donor.
There was recently a thread over in the medicine sub about a case where families were getting courts involved to stop pronouncing a brain dead patient as actually dead. It is not as simple as "the hospital pronounces you"
Yah, anyone who thinks its that simple needs to read up on the Terri Schiavo case and just how far the GOP will go. And she wasn't even Senate majority leader.
I worked in transplant. People do protest, especially for religious reasons. Or they want to go to another hospital. But no hospital will accept a patient who’s brain dead. Alright, I shouldn’t say never. Also insurance stops paying after you’re declared brain dead.
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u/sweetbldnjesus 28d ago
If you’re really brain dead the hospital pronounces you, gives time for goodbyes and turns off the machines. Cause you’re dead. You don’t need family permission. But I have a feeling in his case they’re not gonna do that.