13-yr old Jahi McMath .... sad story

How does a family deal with the government and the medical authorities telling you your child is dead because her brain is not functioning according to the standards set up by the government and the medical authorities?  

How do you deal with hospital authorities sending your child to the county's coroner so the coroner can issue a "death certificate" because according to the government and the medical profession your child is dead even if her heart is still beating?

I know I would have had a nervous breakdown and probably gone into a coma myself.  



Kudos to Jahi McMath's mother for being strong and not giving in to the insensitive people around her. There are umpteen cases of people said to be brain-dead waking up and fully restored to the people they used to be.  I hope Jahi wakes up too.

How horrible and insensitive of Breaking News and NBC to say "body" instead of just the child's name. See below.  For a moment I thought the child had really passed away for good. 

Children's Hospital Oakland: The body of Jahi McMath has been released to coroner, who released it to her mother - @nbcbayarea
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) January 6, 2014

From CTV via AP:
....Acting with a court order, the family of a 13-year-old California girl declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy has had her taken from a California hospital to be cared for elsewhere, the family's attorney says.
Jahi McMath was moved by a critical care team while attached to a ventilator but without a feeding tube, Christopher Dolan told The Associated Press.
She left from Children's Hospital of Oakland in a private ambulance shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday, Dolan said. Her destination was not immediately disclosed.
"It was a very tense situation," said Dolan. "Everybody played by the rules."
David Durand, the hospital's Chief of Pediatrics, said the girl was released to the coroner. The coroner then released her into the custody of her mother, Nailah Winkfield, as per court order, Durand said in an email.
On Friday Alameda County Superior Court Judge Evelio Grillo said Jahi could be transferred under an agreement with Children's Hospital and the girl's mother will be held accountable for developments that could include Jahi going into cardiac arrest.
The Alameda County coroner's office issued a death certificate for the girl Friday but said the document is incomplete because no cause of death has been determined pending an autopsy.......