{"id":4697,"date":"2023-07-13T23:41:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=4697"},"modified":"2023-07-13T23:41:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T23:41:34","slug":"what-does-brain-dead-really-mean-the-battle-over-how-science-defines-the-end-of-life-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"What Does \u2018Brain Dead\u2019 Really Mean? The Battle Over How Science Defines the End of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-74.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-4698\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"767\" height=\"511\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-74.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4698\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-74.png 767w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-74-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-74-370x247.png 370w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-74-293x195.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-74-120x80.png 120w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-74-240x160.png 240w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/image-74-390x260.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 100vw, 767px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dead in California but alive in New Jersey: that was the status of 13-year-old Jahi McMath after physicians in Oakland, California, declared her brain dead in 2013, after complications from a tonsillectomy. Unhappy with the care that their daughter received and unwilling to remove life support, McMath\u2019s family moved with her to New Jersey, where the law allowed them to lodge a religious objection to the declaration of brain death and keep McMath connected to life-support systems for another four and a half years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-02226-z\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-02226-z<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dead in California but alive in New Jersey: that was the status of 13-year-old Jahi McMath after physicians in Oakland, California, declared her brain dead in 2013, after complications from a tonsillectomy. Unhappy with the care that their daughter received and unwilling to remove life support, McMath\u2019s family moved with her to New Jersey, where the law allowed them to lodge a religious objection to the declaration of brain death and keep McMath connected to life-support systems for another four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4699,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions\/4699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}