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

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After fighting for weeks to a keep a 13-year-old girl who has been declared brain dead on life support, the family of Jahi McMath might take her off the machines that have been keeping her alive.

Jahi's uncle Omar Sealey told ABCNews.com that the family would meet Thursday to discuss removing her from life support. "We wanted to talk today. We didn't want to discuss anything on Christmas," he said.

Jahi was declared brain dead after surgery to remove her tonsils led to complications and cardiac arrest, according to ABC's affiliate station KGO in San Francisco.


Dr. David Durand, chief of pediatrics at Children's Hospital Oakland, released a statement on Monday that touched on the hospital's reasons for wanting to remove Jahi from the ventilator.

"We have the deepest sympathy for Jahi's mother who wishes her daughter was alive," wrote Durand. "But the ventilator cannot reverse the brain death that has occurred, and it would be wrong to give false hope that Jahi will ever come back to life."

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After fighting for weeks to a keep a 13-year-old girl who has been declared brain dead on life support, the family of Jahi McMath might take her off the machines that have been keeping her alive.

Jahi's uncle Omar Sealey told ABCNews.com that the family would meet Thursday to discuss removing her from life support. "We wanted to talk today. We didn't want to discuss anything on Christmas," he said.

Jahi was declared brain dead after surgery to remove her tonsils led to complications and cardiac arrest, according to ABC's affiliate station KGO in San Francisco.


Dr. David Durand, chief of pediatrics at Children's Hospital Oakland, released a statement on Monday that touched on the hospital's reasons for wanting to remove Jahi from the ventilator.

"We have the deepest sympathy for Jahi's mother who wishes her daughter was alive," wrote Durand. "But the ventilator cannot reverse the brain death that has occurred, and it would be wrong to give false hope that Jahi will ever come back to life."

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Please let the Family be reasonable. This girl deserves a proper burial.

As for the hospital not being willing to perform the procedures, I don't think that's petty at all. There are a SLEW of reasons to not do it. First, it would be supporting the Family's delusion that she's alive. It would leave them open to liability. It would be desecration of a corpse and it would be taking away surgeons and other resources from live patients. I'm sure there are other patients in that hospital who are in need of procedures being done that will get bumped off the schedule so they can perform these procedures on a dead girl. I would be angry if my Family or loved one had to wait in pain because their surgeon is busy working on a corpse.

Reasons to do it: Zero. She's dead. The only professionals who should be working on her right now are at the funeral home.

Although devastated and grief stricken, it's the Family that is being petty.