REDEFINING DEATH
Jahi McMath was issued a death certificate two years ago. Now her parents and pro-life activists are exploiting a gray area of neuroscience for a religious exemption to keep her ‘alive.’
Ann Neumann is a visiting scholar at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University, where she is a contributing editor at The Revealer. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Bookforum, The Nation, and Guernica. She is the author of The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America. Follow her on Twitter at @otherspoon