I wish the article indicated if she was or was not on the registry.
The father's claimed conversation about donation is when she was "eight or nine"; I certainly wouldn't want medical decisions made on what I said as a pre-teen.
The father's claimed conversation about donation is when she was "eight or nine"; I certainly wouldn't want medical decisions made on what I said as a pre-teen.
As much as the father sounds a bit unhinged, I wonder if the hospital really was trying all avenues to get her organs donated.
Because there's not a "I don't want to be a donor" registry.
Some countries make it an explicit opt out, which I think is a much better approach.
At some point you have to conside the role of the author of this piece. It appears in this case they'd already decided to write about this case, could not get statements from the mother or doctors/hospital involved, and decided to largely base it on the word of the father, his trial lawyers ("Thornton Davidson, Mike’s lawyer, is surprisingly accessible thanks to a puckish, wry wit") and biased sources like the Catholic Medical Association. The filler about Jahi McMath is awful, and largely avoids the complex family dynamics and the eventual multiorgan failure that led to her own family pulling the plug on her several years later.
The father is grieving her suicide and unable to process it because of people willing to use his cause to advance their political or monetary interests. It is a tragic story, but not for the reasons the article puts forth.