Anahita Meshkin, who has been in a coma for eight years and had been declared brain dead, lies in bed and is hooked up to machines at her care facility in Walnut Creek, Calif., on... (SUSAN TRIPP POLLARD/AP)
Thaddeus Pope, law professor at Mitchell Hamline School of Law in Minnesota, has seen a rise in what he calls brain-death “conflicts.”. After Jahi’s case, two families rejected a brain-death diagnosis at San Francisco General Hospital, citing her case, he said.