emmie- I'm gushing.

Shins- There will be organ breakdown-as in organ failure, eventually. The hospital was not court ordered to provide all life sustaining therapies. I saw in Dr. Fisher's note she is on vasopressin. The simplest way to explain it, for me, is it aids in kidney and cardiac function and is a key factor in homeostasis. This is why the family thinks her blood pressure is stable. The hypothalamus and pituitary are needed to produce and spew the juice. If she didn't have the drip her blood pressure would drop and her heart would probably stop. Maybe emmie can weigh in on a better explanation.

Queena- I'm sure the healthcare team has explained things to the family; and probably pretty simply. The doc may not have done a very good job the first time, but when they realized the family was not grasping the meaning the probably did a better job and that's when the mom got pissed because they told her her daughter is dead. I'm also pretty sure they have shown her the images from the tests and may have even allowed her to be present for one of the six brain death tests that were performed.