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Old 01-29-2009, 01:39 AM   #1
Aliantha
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Join Date: Jan 2006
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Dead mother incubator

You may be familiar with this story where a husband asked hospital staff to keep his brain dead wife on life support for two days in order to give their baby a high chance of survival.

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Two days after Jayne Soliman was declared brain-dead, her grieving husband saw her life-support machine turned off.

In a moment of unbelievable poignancy, he was then given their baby daughter to hold for the first time.

Doctors had kept 41-year-old Mrs Soliman's heart beating after she suffered a brain haemorrhage.

For 48 hours they pumped large doses of steroids into her body to help the baby's lungs develop.
I find it interesting that some people are against this decision by the husband and the hospital. More so because Dazza and I had a discussion about this very same topic quite a few months ago after I had a very near miss while driving. It was my very express wish that he keep me on life support until our baby could be born safely.

What do you think?
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