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Someone's gone without oxygen, no one is ever recovered from brain death, the appropriate tests were all done here a number of times, sadly no, no one has ever come back. >> it's an incredibly difficult case, isn't it? ethically, legally, morally, and just from a human perspective, what do you make of it? >> piers, i think from a human perspective it's heartbreaking and difficult. but from all those other perspectives, legally, medically, ethically, i don't think it's a difficult case. unfortunately this child is dead, we draw this distinction between brain death and death, there is no distinc...

What may take place affecting her prognosis. that's the truth when it comes to brain death, we are talking about death. this is just another term for it. >> is brain death different than a persistent vegetative state or being in a coma? >> it is. i know you've done some reporting on this as well, people who have cox and seemingly recovered from comas, this is different. and terms matter here, people can be in a coma and still have brain activity. they can be? a persistent vegetative state. there is no brain activity. the higher brain functions as well as the lower brain functions which control...

Mcmath underwent surgery to treat sleep apnea and underwent cardiac arrest. they listed december 12th as the day she died and has been pushing to have her ventilator removed since it has been keeping a dead person alive. the decision of medical ethics at the medical center. first to you. this latest development, this young woman, this dead woman according to officials is at this other facility and this is still continuing. you call this ghoulish. >> it is. you are basically in a position where people are running around the country with a dead in an ambulance, trying to get medical procedures d...

Multiple doctors have deck claired her brain dead and classify whole brain death as irreversible cessation of functions in the brain, including the brain stem. the hospital is not giving details of how she will be transported and new beginnings not giving details out yet. time is the -- is of the essence, the bottom line is on tuesday at 5:00 p.m. >> and who has the right to decide? is it the hospital or the parents? thank you. bone-chilling game with a down to the wire finish in green bay. frozen but hot at the same time. chicken quesadilla soup. she gives me chunky before every game. i'm v...

Which is what the brain does. but most importantly, in a coma, even though that person is in a state of semiresponsiveness, looks like a deep sleep, there's a potential for recovery in a coma. brain death is different. as you said in the beginning, brain death there's zero flow to the brain. there's no oxygen being -- coming to the brain or being consumed. there's no electrical activity. and most importantly for families to know, there's no potential for that brain function to ever come back. it's complete and total loss of all brain activity forever. >> it is a -- it is a sad story to have to...