Another Michigan Brain Death Dispute

For the second time in a month, a Michigan family is contesting a hospital's determination of death by neurological criteria. (This is on top of other October 2019 brain death disputes that went to court in Arizona, Oxford UK, and elsewhere.)

Clinicians at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak determined that 16-year-old Titus Cromer Jr. was dead. They plan to "withdraw Titus's life-sustaining medical treatment, which includes ventilation and artificial hydration and nutrition on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 at noon."

The family is seeking an injunction from the Oakland County to extend that time. A transfer to another hospital is close to impossible. But the family may be able to draw out the litigation for several months, effectively keeping Titus at Beaumont into 2020 or until he suffers cardiac death.