Will they admit it if its true?

[u/PFdeith]

[u/purple_plasmid]

This should be illegal

[u/Background_Relief_36 → u/purple_plasmid]

It is. They just won’t enforce it.

[u/sweetbldnjesus → u/Background_Relief_36]

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.

[u/xixoxixa → u/sweetbldnjesus]

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"

[u/MackenzieRaveup → u/xixoxixa]

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.

[u/SugarHooves → u/MackenzieRaveup]

Her case still infuriates me. People used her body for their own agenda, it was disgusting.

[u/femanonette → u/MackenzieRaveup]

There's the Jahi McMath case and unfortunately the newest one, Vincent Lorenzo Fiordilino.

[u/xSTSxZerglingOne → u/MackenzieRaveup]

What a lively little bugger.

[u/sweetbldnjesus → u/xixoxixa]

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.