13-Year-Old Brain-Dead Girl Highlights Need for Better Hospice Care

COMMENTARY | One month ago,13-year-old Jahi McMath went to the hospital for a routine tonsillectomy. Today, she is declared brain dead and connected to breathing and feeding tubes just to survive. Anyone who has been following Jahi’s case must feel for her family and the nightmare they are living. Whatever complications that occurred during her surgery have now forced Jahi’s family to make choices that no parent should have to make.