California Girl At Heart Of Brain Death Debate Dies
Jahi McMath's family has been waging a battle against the hospital that declared her brain dead in 2013. Her mother said that she died on June 22 after a surgery.
The Associated Press:
Mother: Girl At Center Of Debate Over Brain Death Dies
A girl at the center of the medical and religious debate over brain death has died after surgery in New Jersey, her mother said Thursday. Nailah Winkfield said doctors declared her daughter Jahi McMath dead on June 22 from excessive bleeding and liver failure after an operation to treat an intestinal issue. (6/28)
Los Angeles Times:
Jahi McMath, Girl At Center Of Debate Over Brain Death, Dies, Mother Says
In the years since Jahi McMath was declared brain dead, she sometimes showed signs of life: a twitch of her finger, the wiggling of a toe. Those moments, and their Christian faith, invigorated Jahi’s family in their fight to keep the girl on life support. “Jahi wasn't brain dead or any kind of dead,” her mother, Nailah Winkfield, told the Associated Press. “She was a girl with a brain injury, and she deserved to be cared for like any other child who had a brain injury.” (Tchekmedyian, 6/28)