Jahi McMath (13) died for real five years after she was declared brain dead following surgery complications

**becoming** · 01-07-2014, 09:56 PM

I feel something close to embarrassment for them at this point...

**White trash bitchy blonde** · 01-07-2014, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by becoming

I feel something close to embarrassment for them at this point...

I kind of do to but just to a point. I see desperation in them. I think the mom jumped the gun in her comments and I did read that the lawyer made the comment about the outcome for this child is 'grim' and I thought to myself 'ya think? '.

**White trash bitchy blonde** · 01-07-2014, 10:44 PM

Phone posting but I just read on the previous page that they saw possible brain activity during the transfer?
Couldn't that just be from moving her and messing with her body? Like involuntary activity?

**bowieluva** · 01-07-2014, 10:58 PM

Originally Posted by White trash bitchy blonde

Phone posting but I just read on the previous page that they saw possible brain activity during the transfer?
Couldn't that just be from moving her and messing with her body? Like involuntary activity?

I think they think they see activity everywhere, like how some people see lambs in clouds.

**White trash bitchy blonde** · 01-07-2014, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by bowieluva

I think they think they see activity everywhere, like how some people see lambs in clouds.

I thought maybe if that were true and they saw activity it was because of the transfer itself,not actually her.

She has already passed on, it reminds me of that funeral home that propped that one guy up on his motorcycle for the viewing.
The parents only see that child breathing and they aren't going to give up until they see her start to decompose and even then I don't think they can handle it.
She hasn't had nutrition ina month,how is her body supposed to handle that?
I think saying your goodbyes is the hardest thing ever and they haven't grasped that. I think when it comes down to it and they pull her vent, these parents are going to lose it.
I've lost family members just like everyone here but I've never lost a child. I'm not sure howi would handle this.

**Queena** · 01-08-2014, 06:49 AM

Originally Posted by bowieluva

Man, this is fucking sad. I think her parents are really deluded morons but I still feel bad for them to be in such deep denial.

This!

Originally Posted by emmieslost

i feel bad for them, too. i think too many other idiots with agendas are giving them false hope. seeing the uncle talk about all the 'brain dead' children he has met solidified that for me. not the same as i felt for terri's parents, who are just greedy assholes, imo.

Originally Posted by White trash bitchy blonde

I kind of do to but just to a point. I see desperation in them. I think the mom jumped the gun in her comments and I did read that the lawyer made the comment about the outcome for this child is 'grim' and I thought to myself 'ya think? '.

And this!

I feel so sorry for them. The poor child is dead, and damn those people giving them false hope. She is in no way like TS, TS was in a PVS, Jahi is dead. They're going to have to realize this sooner rather than later. Her body is decaying from the inside out...won't she start stinking soon?

**sarabei** · 01-08-2014, 07:03 AM

I felt horrible for this family when all this started.....now, not so much. At what point do you put what your loved one would have wanted above your wants and needs? I can't believe Jahi would have wanted to live like this, I can't imagine anyone would. I can only excuse their ignorance for so long. I mean really how DO they think she would be if she did "come back"? I don't really think they have an agenda, but this has left sad and ran headlong into bizarre. Everyone trying to profit from this should be drawn and quartered. I would really like to know what ultimately caused her to bleed out, etc.

And TS family are horrid little people. To now honor the wishes of your loved one is beyond reprehensible.

**Monter** · 01-08-2014, 07:21 AM

Ive been half following this story - so sad.
From a strictly emotional, superstitious perspective, I think of this incident that occurred when I was in college.(in the 90s, no less)
I worked as a clerk in the ER and ICU of a local hospital, and a guy came in from a motorcycle accident with a bad head injury.He was in ICU for weeks, and the doctors did at the time the final test to determine brain death. They did the tes that day, I came in in the afternoon and the nurses said the family was pulling the vent the next day, as the test concluded there was no brain activity.
Dude fucking woke up.
Not- half blinked, moved his hadn - this guy opened his eyes, acknowledged people and once they go the tube out was able to speak. Like every cheesy "guy in a coma" movie ever.
This does not happen, will not happen here either, and the technoloigy has advanced so much - again Im posting only because this is what goes through my brain in these situations...what if? Dude was 12 hours from being dead. If I was in this position with someone I loved, I cannot help that this is something I would think of.

**White trash bitchy blonde** · 01-08-2014, 09:03 AM

My husband and i were talking aout this last night and he said he thinks that he would probably feel the same as the family but he also said he would hope he would be surrounded by medical professionals giving facts and even showing us brain scans that show no activity.
His stancce is that if the family wants to keep her 'alive' then they should be able to but to me, it's become soo much.

And like what monter said, there have been those people who were in a coma or declared brain dead and somehow overcame those odds but to me, those cases were miracles no doubt.
He also said 'well, if the parents can keep up with these medical costs than by all eans let them do it but they really arent able to considering they are needing donations to do things. At some point their insurance is gonna say 'no more' if they havent already.

**sarabei** · 01-08-2014, 12:29 PM

What bothers me is that they are literally watching her decompose right in front of them. The things posted yesterday about not bowel sounds and the one bowel movement being the way it was *shudder*; I would NEVER want to remember my loved one that way. Ever. But yeah, what Monter said and the story she shared and stories like that, miraculous no doubt!

**TupeloHoney** · 01-08-2014, 12:57 PM