Amazingly happy and tragic story at the same time.
He’s really, really small, but he looks perfect,” said Benson. “He’s just the most adorable little person I’ve ever seen in my life, and I’m so proud that he’s my son, and how hard he fought to be here and how hard my wife fought to give us this beautiful little boy.”
Robyn Benson was taken off life support the day her son was born.
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Am I the only one for whom this story points out incredible problems with the notion of “brain death”?
From my reading, this is not a misapplication of this term in a case of “long-term coma” or “persistent vegetative state” but rather a true diagnosis of legal death. This woman was in the same state (i.e. “dead”) that other people are in from whom organs are taken for transplantation.
So are we to believe that a corpse carried a baby to term? Or that she was misdiagnosed? Or that there is a problem with the notion that “brain death” is death?
Life support machines can keep the blood oxygenated and pumping, which will keep the rest of the body systems alive, even if the brain has flatlined. Brain death is legal death, and yes, although it makes it sound quite gruesome, Mrs. Benson’s corpse was carrying her child for awhile. (Not to term. The baby was born three months early.)