Keep in mind, we’re hearing soley from her family’s camp, and if you’ve been following her mother’s blog, she’s not the most reliable of sources, and there’s been a LOT of backlash against her. (For one, she’s posted images of designer purses and shoes she’s bought, despite the solicitations of funds for Jahi’s care)
Quite frankly, I’m skeptical.
Updating this thread:
Amazing how she has stubbornly stuck to her delusion right until the very end.
Hopefully she’ll now realize that she has living children to tend to and maybe they won’t resent her too much. Seriously though, this woman will require some intense grief counseling because she still hasn’t fully accepted the outcome of her daughter’s surgery.
I can see the potential that this entire thing may in fact be narcissistic grandstanding by one or both parents, and may in fact have absolutely nothing to do with religion or with grieving.
The family should never be forced to make this sort of decision. The doctors have the training and knowledge and RESPONSIBILITY to make this decision. Kindly, but firmly. This child has no brain function. To draw out the death into months of indecision and agony for the parents is Cruel. To force the parents to make a decision is even crueler.
To offer organ donation from the child 1- offers hope and life to many. 2- May offer the parents, and others, a way through grief and a way to find meaning in her death.
I think this situation was one where the doctors did make the decision, informed the family, and in response the family started a circus with the mother as the star attraction and the dead daughter as the ultimate prop.
I’m inclined to be a little more charitable toward the family. They couldn’t accept reality, so they rejected it in favor of a delusion. That is, I think the family’s position, wrong as it is, is sincere. This is a fairly common reaction to tragedy. What’s different in this case is how immediate and complete the reaction was, and how the family made it into cause célèbre.