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Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon
Has this actually been confirmed yet?
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The family may have a press-release later today.
There is a video circulating of Natasha's family entering and later exiting Lenox Hill Hospital (NY), and various reports that do not provide a positive outlook.
I hope there is an official press-release soon. It was uncomfortable to see the family filmed in distress, especially Natasha's children, with papraz-pricks shouting out the insensitive crap that they do. One can only hope 'they' back off from the invasion and allow the family privacy.
I read items such as below and it just tears a heart out...what that must be like to be in this/that situation...
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"The rule of thumb is: You have two neurological exams, 12 hours apart, to show that there is no evidence of higher brain activity," said Dr. Philip Stieg, chairman of New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell's department of neurological surgery.
"If that is so, the patient is brain-dead; they are clinically dead."
At that point, he said, "The family has two options:
"You turn off the ventilator, the heart will stop beating, and that is it," he said. Or, the family can keep her alive a bit longer "and allow them time to say goodbye."
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