Uncle Sugar

People get confused as well. When they say she was "ventilated" or being ventilated...it means a machine was breathing for her. She was brain dead. Everything that was her was gone, never to return. That she was being ventilated didn't change that fact. She was a corpse (just being blunt), whose bodily processes were being simulated, as well as they could be, through external mechanized means. She was still decaying...perhaps at a slower rate, but the process of death wasn't being stopped because she's on a ventilator or fluids were being pumped into her body. It's not the same thing as someone being in a coma, who might need assistance breathing or staying fed...she was frigging brain dead. No recovery. No opening her eyes a year later to the relief and joy of family and friends. She was never coming back...because she was dead.

The fetus, for all the medical and mechanical intervention the hospital was using, was likewise *decaying*...in every sense of the word. Again, it wasn't a fetus inside a coma patient. It was a fetus inside a dead body. This whole friggin thing was so ghoulish, I can't do it likewise ghoulish justice.

Now I hear (not sure if true, but not hard to believe) that the hospital plans on billing Mr. Munoz for every single penny of their intervention and macabre intrusion. I hope he sues the ever living fuck out of them.