Oakland teen Jahi McMath laid to rest nearly 5 years after being declared brain-dead
Nearly five years after being declared brain-dead and placed on a ventilator at the insistence of a devoted mother who declared she was alive and improving, Jahi McMath was laid to rest Friday in East Oakland. Dozens of mourners streamed into Acts Full Gospel Church to memorialize the Oakland teen whose throat surgery gone awry inspired the latest national debate over the meaning of death. Organ music thrummed. Daffodil bouquets brightened the altar. Jahi, who would have turned 18 this year... Читать дальше...