There were two follow-up articles in the Salt Lake Tribune today about Jesse Koochin, the 6-year-old patient whose parents, Gayle and Steve, reject his physicians' diagnosis of death. The ethics of treating brain-dead patients are discussed here, and the factual developments in the case are described here.
According to the article, "on Thursday, Gayle and Steve Koochin were frantically trying to make arrangements to take Jesse to the family's temporary Salt Lake City home, where his care will be supervised by Gary Holland, Hospice for Utah's medical director, and a hospice nurse. He could be moved as soon as today."
Not to appear insensitive to the suffering of these parents, but this is as much a perversion of hospice care as continued ventilation is a perversion of intensive care. The poor kid died earlier this week, and his body has started to decompose, even as ventilator support has been continued. (See article below.) He doesn't deserve (mis)treatment. He deserves the respect of a decent burial. To continue to treat him under these circumstances gives his parents false hope and mistreats Jesse's remains.
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Amazing how parents seem to be losing their rights.
If the hospital released Jesse and upgraded his condition from dead to poor, that should tell you
something. A dead person doesn't have a heartbeat
or expel gas after being fed through the feeding tube.
If the parents want to take care of him, why should
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as it has been suggested, the smell should cause them
to re-think their position. There's an old saying-
where there's life-there's hope. If the parents didn't
do everything in their power, they would surely have
regrets down the line. Why persecute parents for trying
to do all they can for their child when we have parents
who regularly neglect their children and the community
has to take care of the children or they become wards
of the courts. Too often we "throw away" our most vulnerable children and adults. I say hurrah for parents like these who are willing to fight for their
child's life when it is obvious that the "establishment"
wants to get rid of them. I am praying that Jesse
shows everyone that healing is possible- and we shouldn't limit the human spirit and God who heals people though many means. We shouldn't limit things
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It has been suggested that Jesse be buried.....How
gruesome. I used to have nightmares that someone
would bury me and I couldn't say anything.. Who
can play God and do that to a human being? What's
wrong with waiting awhile to see if Jesse comes out
of the coma? Would that be so wrong?
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