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Texas Hospital keeping pregnant dead lady on life support[W:315]

The judge stated that the law was not applicable to Munoz since she is dead - so the "life support" was not legally required for dead people.

She should have been pronounced a few months ago, as she met all the criteria, but the hospital did not. Even though she has not been formally pronounced at this time, the judge acknowledged that she is indeed dead.

Indeed she was, dead and gone. Which then if it comes down to the desires of a dead woman and the possibility of preserving human life; I'd say the thing actually alive should be given top billing.
 
Indeed she was, dead and gone. Which then if it comes down to the desires of a dead woman and the possibility of preserving human life; I'd say the thing actually alive should be given top billing.

If the woman died when the fetus was viable....by all means, they can do a C-section and deliver at that time.
 
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Good lord i hope the family wins and sues the pants off the hospital

In this case, I would say that the hospital is ineligeble for a lawsuit. The problem here is with the law and it's unclear wording. Some of us are interperting it one way and others another. The state needs to amend the law to make it clearer as to its application. I do hope that the family wins. I just don't think that the hospital should become another victim when they really are not the problem.

She is on life-sustaining medical equipment.


She is on life-sustaining medical equipment.

The fact that a piece of equipment is given a label based upon it's primary purpose, that in no way implies that it cannot be used in any other manner or purpose. A screwdriver can do more than just drive screws. It can pry open lids, open boxes and many other things. Likewise life-sustaining medical equipment can do more than sustain life. It can also maintain bodily functions in a dead body.
 
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This makes my head hurt. I can't wrap my head around how this can be legally allowed. To force a woman to carry full term is taking away her right to choose. But then she's dead, so she can't choose anyway.

"Brain dead" has become one of those false catch-all slogans. The "brain dead" often can still feel pain. If she had a directive prohibiting artificial life support the hospital is providing specifically prohibited medical care against her express wishes.

Since she is legally "dead," the husband should just take her body out of there. There would be no legal authority to stop him, rather than him wanting the hospital to do something. Just do it himself.
 
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"Brain dead" has become one of those false catch-all slogans. The "brain dead" often can still feel pain. If she had a directive prohibiting artificial life support the hospital is providing specifically prohibited medical care against her express wishes.

Since she is legally "dead," the husband should just take her body out of there. There would be no legal authority to stop him, rather than him wanting the hospital to do something. Just do it himself.

Brain dead (as used in the uniform determination of death act) is legal death. Properly diagnosed with the proper criteria they are clinical dead - no pain, no ability to breath spontaneously. Dead.
 
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I don't see how they have any legal standing against the hospital. It would be a useless lawsuit for nothing more than to make the State and People pay more for an issue that has been settled. A selfish and stupid act.

Selfish and stupid defines what the hospital did. This was an obvious and easy case. The husband and the woman's family need to be compensated. Furthermore I'm always hearing about how great the economy of Texas is, so this should be no big deal to pay them.
 
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Utterly repugnant.

Could you dance on the grave of that baby just a little more? Sheesh, dude. A baby is going to die here. Try to calm yourself just a bit.

It's easy to be inflammatory when you don't have any actual issue stance, just a desire to be inflammatory.

Calling the post disgusting, which it unquestionably is, misses the point - it was meant to be disgusting.
 
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Selfish and stupid defines what the hospital did. This was an obvious and easy case. The husband and the woman's family need to be compensated. Furthermore I'm always hearing about how great the economy of Texas is, so this should be no big deal to pay them.

I thought it was obvious as well. In the medical profession you diagnose properly. If you believe the diagnosis leads you to a place where you have no clue how to procede, you ask. In this case it was a diagnosis of death and how to proceed in accordance with a law. So you bring it to the courts.

Since they did not pronounce her dead (when they knew she was dead) and bring it to the courts in November, I have to believe that there were political pressures (or similar) pushing their decisions.
 
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I'm not prepared to have an opinion in the absence of facts. There are HIPAA restraints, and in the meantime, I'm tired of people practicing medicine and law without a license.
 
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"Brain dead" has become one of those false catch-all slogans. The "brain dead" often can still feel pain....

Some lay persons call a person in a coma or in a permanent vegetive state as being brain dead but being in a coma or PVS is not medically brain dead as they do not fit the medical criteria for brain death.

In this case the woman was truly a corpse.
 
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Some lay persons call a person in a coma or in a permanent vegetive state as being brain dead but being in a coma or PVS is not medically brain dead as they do not fit the medical criteria for brain death.

In this case the woman was truly a corpse.

There is a whole criteria for determining brain death

PVS is not close.
 
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I'm not prepared to have an opinion in the absence of facts. There are HIPAA restraints, and in the meantime, I'm tired of people practicing medicine and law without a license.

We are not practicing medicine or law. We are having a discussion with the information that is available.
 
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I am glad the right decision was made. The judge ruled the law was not be applied correctly and the families wishes were followed. This isn't a happy ending, but I think this went well past the chance for anything good to come out of this situation.
 
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