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   From: deplorable.redneck@nytimes.com   
      
   NBC, so fucked up they can't even get a headline straight.   
      
   Blacks, so intelligent they know more than doctors...   
      
   Mother had refused to accept her daughter was brain dead, but   
   said the girl died after surgery last week.   
      
   Congratulations American taxpayers.  You got five years of   
   medical bills to finish paying plus funeral expenses.   
      
   SAN FRANCISCO — 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.   
      
   McMath was declared dead in December 2013 when she was 13 after   
   suffering irreversible brain damage during routine surgery in   
   California to remove her tonsils. A coroner signed a death   
   certificate. Several specialists concurred after neurological   
   tests.   
      
   Winkfield refused to accept the conclusion. She said her   
   Christian beliefs compelled her to fight for continued care for   
   her daughter, who she said showed signs of life through toe   
   wriggles and finger movements.   
      
   Winkfield flew her daughter to New Jersey, where she has   
   remained on life support and received care in the state that   
   accommodates religions that don’t recognize brain death.   
      
   “Jahi wasn’t brain dead or any kind of dead,” Winkfield said.   
   “She was a girl with a brain injury and she deserved to be cared   
   for like any other child who had a brain injury.”   
      
   McMath’s case drew national attention amid the debate over brain   
   death and religious beliefs. Conservative religious groups   
   rallied behind Winkfield and helped raise money for McMath’s   
   continued care.   
      
   Winkfield said she has quit her job, sold her home in Oakland   
   and used savings to pay for McMath’s care in New Jersey. The   
   state’s Medicaid program and donations have also contributed to   
   the girl’s care.   
      
   “These last four-and-a-half years have not been easy,” Winkfield   
   said. “I can go to sleep knowing I did everything possible for   
   my kid and no one can take that away from me.”   
      
   Winkfield and her lawyers had been trying to rescind the   
   California death certificate as part of a medical malpractice   
   lawsuit filed against Children’s Hospital in Oakland.   
      
   In refusing to throw out the lawsuit last year, a judge ruled   
   that it was up to a jury to determine if the girl was still   
   alive.   
      
   Attorney Chris Dolan said the New Jersey death certificate   
   eliminated that argument, but he and Winkfield are still   
   debating whether to continue the fight and possibly set a   
   precedent so other religious families don’t have to go through   
   the same situation.   
      
   “My wish is that she will get some laws changed,” Winkfield said   
   about her daughter. “I really hope that people learn from this   
   and learn not to pull the plug so fast.”   
      
   Children’s Hospital lawyers had argued that the family did not   
   subject McMath to tests accepted by the American Medical   
   Association to determine brain death.   
      
   Dolan says new technology has made traditional tests obsolete.   
      
   https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/girl-declared-brain-   
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