Jahi McMath is finally at peace

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For those who have been following this saga . . I'm glad she was finally allowed to be at peace.

Jahi McMath, girl at center of brain death debate, has died after surgery, family says | Fox News

Specializes in nurseline,med surg, PD.

I recall reading that mom was feeding Jahi in PACU even though the staff told her that Jahi was NPO. That is what started the bleeding.

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I recall reading that mom was feeding Jahi in PACU even though the staff told her that Jahi was NPO. That is what started the bleeding.

That has never been corroborated officially. This accusation was first made in the comments section of an article about the case by someone who claimed (anonymously) to have been present in PACU when it happened. That is not a very strong piece of evidence.

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

I honestly feel a little strange being happy about the death of an already dead girl. What kind of world do we live in that a sentence like that even makes sense? Hopefully the family can find some peace now that there is finally nothing else to be done.

Speaks more to my to twisted sense of humor than anything else, but gee whiz...the first thing that popped in my head was the Wizard of Oz "And she's not only merely dead

She's really most sincerely dead."

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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
Elkpark- yes, but I would think that after seeing her code, be pronounced brain dead by multiple doctors, spend almost 5 years being hooked up to life support, battling an infection all year, going into DIC and bleeding out would be enough for her mother to think maybe we should just let her die. But no, they coded her for two hours. Things like this just leave me with nothing else to say expect WTF. Oh and I forgot, perform surgery on a child that was pronounced dead years before.

I agree with a previous poster that the only good rationale for a 2 hour code would be to avoid a lawsuit from the family.

I feel very relieved that that poor little girl has finally been let go. It was a gruesome story.

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Specializes in Psych, Peds, Education, Infection Control.

I'm glad that poor girl can finally rest. The lights were kept on with no one home for far too long.

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Her mom needs some psychiatric help and have been that way for a long time. There is no justifiable reason to code a brain dead child for 2 hrs, literally none. May this child rest and her mom/family get the grief counseling they need.

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RIP to Jahi. She nor her mother asked for any of this to happen. My prayer go out to her mother and family. Unfortunately, we all know life is not fair. We should also be reminded that rejoicing in a mother's pain is also a little sick and twisted don't you think? Yes, as nurses the situation was very sad to say the least. We don't have the hospital's account about what happened but we do know Jahi didn't walk into that hospital brain dead. Take a minute and put yourself into the mother's shoes and offer up a prayer for her and not your diagnoses of mental illness. Be better than what you are. Yes I know, nurses eat their own young. Well, it's for that reason so many of you are miserable and unhappy.

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Specializes in NICU.
RIP to Jahi. She nor her mother asked for any of this to happen. My prayer go out to her mother and family. Unfortunately, we all know life is not fair. We should also be reminded that rejoicing in a mother's pain is also a little sick and twisted don't you think? Yes, as nurses the situation was very sad to say the least. We don't have the hospital's account about what happened but we do know Jahi didn't walk into that hospital brain dead. Take a minute and put yourself into the mother's shoes and offer up a prayer for her and not your diagnoses of mental illness. Be better than what you are. Yes I know, nurses eat their own young. Well, it's for that reason so many of you are miserable and unhappy.

Wow. Really?

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RIP to Jahi. She nor her mother asked for any of this to happen. My prayer go out to her mother and family. Unfortunately, we all know life is not fair. We should also be reminded that rejoicing in a mother's pain is also a little sick and twisted don't you think?

Who has been "rejoicing in a mother's pain"?

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Specializes in Psych, Corrections, Med-Surg, Ambulatory.
RIP to Jahi. She nor her mother asked for any of this to happen. My prayer go out to her mother and family. Unfortunately, we all know life is not fair. We should also be reminded that rejoicing in a mother's pain is also a little sick and twisted don't you think? Yes, as nurses the situation was very sad to say the least. We don't have the hospital's account about what happened but we do know Jahi didn't walk into that hospital brain dead. Take a minute and put yourself into the mother's shoes and offer up a prayer for her and not your diagnoses of mental illness. Be better than what you are. Yes I know, nurses eat their own young. Well, it's for that reason so many of you are miserable and unhappy.

Any particular reason you are trolling a nursing website? An axe to grind against nurses?

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Specializes in ED, Cardiac-step down, tele, med surg.
RIP to Jahi. She nor her mother asked for any of this to happen. My prayer go out to her mother and family. Unfortunately, we all know life is not fair. We should also be reminded that rejoicing in a mother's pain is also a little sick and twisted don't you think? Yes, as nurses the situation was very sad to say the least. We don't have the hospital's account about what happened but we do know Jahi didn't walk into that hospital brain dead. Take a minute and put yourself into the mother's shoes and offer up a prayer for her and not your diagnoses of mental illness. Be better than what you are. Yes I know, nurses eat their own young. Well, it's for that reason so many of you are miserable and unhappy.

It's a tragedy that an elective procedure turned tragic. That's one of the terribly unforseen risks of any surgery. I think the situation should have been handled more delicately from Childrens Hospital in the beginning. I think the family just could not let go, could not accept what happened. It is a heartbreaking story. I feel very bad for the family.

With that said, I think that medical capabilities allowed this to continue far too long, keeping a dead/dying body "alive" for 5 years. It was cruel to do this to the family, essentially giving them false hope that she would actually recover. I've taken care of people in persistent vegetative t states before, their flesh rotting away, the robotic movements, and the families insisting on sustaining treatment and effort to keep someone trapped in that state. How miserable of an existence. In ,a way it is selfish to not let go and allow nature to take its course once the essence of a person is gone.

Even after a terrible tradgedy such as this, allowing someone to die is a kindness, the ultimate act of unselfish love: to let somoene go-let the spirit move on. I think this whole thing should be a lesson to health care providers that futile codes and taking extrordinary meassures to preserve "life" are in fact unethical and do not act in the best interests of the very patients they are supposed to help.

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Specializes in Pediatric Critical Care.

If I was that surgeon, I would be making sure I had very good before going near this case.

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