Hospital policy does not allow for the upkeep of a corpse. If the family expects the hospital to upkeep their deceased daughter, I believe the hospital should have a say in that. Why wouldn't they? I do think this case will allow for changes in the law and more hospital policies regarding who long (not counting organ donors) a person will be kept on the vent once death pronouncement has been made.
This is from your post:
we can judge all we want, but in the end, we don't deserve a say in how someone else doesn't live and doesn't die.
No one is having a say on how this girl is going to die. The God you spoke of in your post already did that. She's already dead. That's the whole point of this case. SHE'S DEAD. This is not end of life care. Let me repeat, the girl is dead.
Only people who don't understand or believe brain death think there is a chance someone could wake up. Yes, science continues to change, but I don't think science can change dead. It's pretty simple really. If there is no blood flow to the brain there is no oxygen to the brain. How can someone wake up, from the dead, who has no oxygen or blood flow? Only zombies can do that.
I don't know California law to make a statement bold enough to say they
aren't breaking any laws and just let them keep a dead person on a
ventilator because it's what they want to do.
California Health and Safety Code. I couldn't find anything else. I
pretty much suck at sleuthing. So, technically, it would be abuse of a
corpse to move the body because it would be disposing.
HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE
SECTION 7050.5-7055
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=hsc&group=07001-08000&file=7050.5-7055
7054. (a) (1) Except as authorized pursuant to the sections
referred to in subdivision (b), every person who deposits or disposes
of any human remains in any place, except in a cemetery, is guilty
of a misdemeanor.
(2) Every licensee or registrant pursuant to Chapter 12
(commencing with Section 7600) or Chapter 19 (commencing with Section
9600) of Division 3 of the Business and Professions Code and the
agents and employees of the licensee or registrant,
or any unlicensed
person acting in a capacity in which a license from the Cemetery and
Funeral Bureau is required, who, except as authorized pursuant to
the sections referred to in subdivision (b), deposits or disposes of
any human remains in any place, except in a cemetery, is guilty of a
misdemeanor that shall be punishable by imprisonment in a county jail
not exceeding one year, by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars
($10,000), or both that imprisonment and fine.
7054.4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, recognizable
anatomical parts, human tissues, anatomical human remains, or
infectious waste following conclusion of scientific use shall be
disposed of by interment, incineration, or any other method
determined by the state department to protect the public health and
safety.
As used in this section, "infectious waste" means any material or
article which has been, or may have been, exposed to contagious or
infectious disease.
Even when searching California law, Ohio law came up in the search.
Ohio Revised Code
Title [29] XXIX CRIMES - PROCEDURE
Chapter 2927: MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES
2927.01
Abuse of a corpse.
(A)
No person, except as authorized by law,
shall treat a human corpse in a way that the person knows would outrage
reasonable family sensibilities.
(B)
No person, except as authorized by law,
shall treat a human corpse in a way that would outrage reasonable community
sensibilities.
(C)
Whoever
violates division (A) of this section is guilty of abuse of a corpse, a
misdemeanor of the second degree. Whoever violates division (B) of this section
is guilty of gross abuse of a corpse, a felony of the fifth degree.
Effective Date: 07-01-1996
http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2927.01