Dear Sword:
Hello! This is a quote from the article you posted:
"Dr. Karen Frush, the hospital's medical director of children's services, has there was no sure way to tell when the brain damage occurred. But Mack Mahoney, a family friend and Jesica's chief benefactor, said doctors told the family it was due to the time Jesica was connected to life support.
"Life support ruins kidneys, it ruins brains, it ruins all the organs of the body," he said.
The Santillan family declined to donate any organs from Jesica's body, Puff said. "
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Although it seems an unreasonable decision by the parents to deny other organ donors the same transplant opportunity Jesica had, it sounds to me like there was little chance of viable organs to donate anyway.
I actually don't blame them (in a way) for wanting to put Jesica's body into her grave without any more surgical invasions...especially if there was not much to donate anyway.
That girl AND her parents went through a lot....two heart-lung transplants (one of them unnecessary and due to medical negligence) and now her death.
It is obvious they played every card, moved heaven and earth to try to save their daughter....it would have been a lovely gesture for them to allow any and all viable parts to be harvested, but I really don't blame them for saying no now...they are grief-stricken, it was all a disaster, and there isn't much to donate anyway....
All this IMHO.
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