That poor child that has been in the news lately after a medical procedure common they are saying in childhood. Questions here.
As there is a death certificate for her, can her parents claim her as a dependent ?
If someone sneaks into the place she is being treated at, rapes her, what charges can be placed other then abuse of a corpse. While she is pregnant can the child be taken off the machines that will also kill the baby?
What kind of birth certificate would the child get when father unknown and mother deceased a year before the child's birth ?
Who is the legal guardian of the child, if her grandparents take custody of the child will any court settlement money be used to support the child ?
If the rapist is found can he sue for custody of the child and tap into the mothers settlement money
Most important, if the mother had become brain dead from a stroke or seizure and there was no one to sue, would her parents be fighting so hard to keep her alive in body only ?
I think about that poor Terri Scheviro and the heartbreak of it all. After her accident and an award of a few million bucks, it lasted a few years and her husband raided the trust fund to buy his main squeeze a home and they produced 2-3 kids.
Now both the husband and girlfriend were GOOD Christians and their Church backed then both up all the way. The Church considered her decided
The money needed to be spent on her care but soon the trust was way, way down and Terri's husband and girlfriend had spent most of it. Along comes the husband when the trust fell to a couple hundred thousand bucks and decided to have the Doctors take his wife off the machines. Had he not there was no way he with a new family pay the bills to keep her alive.
It became a Circus as his wife's parents fought tooth and nail to prevent this action.
Both sides lined up in court after court but in the end the Husband and girlfriend got their way.
Now I wonder about this child, brain dead and what is in store for her. Once the family gets the settlement money will they then decide the best thing to do is to pull her plug ?
I saw both sides of the problem and I cannot imagine what side was the most tragic, the husband with a wife brain dead, the girlfriend with his kids or the parents who desperately wanted to believe one day their daughter would wake up.
To make matters worse the internet was flooded with story's of how a family member was in a coma for years and came out of it unexpected, for some reason, and it was found the person had been misdiagnosed.
for all party's in a similar situation.
As medical technology advances at jet speed, we I believe need to rethink the laws on medical practices and the impact it has on grieving in shock family
Some states put a cap on how much can be sued for in malpractice suites is baloney, the man that went into surgery for a circumcision had his entire Penis's cut off and now has to sit to pee. His doctor just took a look at the member and decided he had cancer, no cold tests of any time of the tissue, just a eye ball guess that the patient may have something that looks like cancer. Unfortunately the member at issue was disposed of in the trash.
Boston, a patient under brain surgery was left for 30 minutes on the table with skull wide open as the surgeon left to run across the street to cash his pay check. No crap, lots of crap happens, kids dieing from routine dentil care, I can just imagine how Obama care will be much better.
Looking at on line photos of medical care in Russia in the 1980's may as well get a neighbor to take out your gall bladder in their kitchen.