Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network WRONG to Defend the Dead?

The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network is a Pennsylvania-based nonprofit that works to "protect the lives of the medically vulnerable from the threat of imposed death."



Earlier this year, the Network helped the family of Jahi McMath by "assembl[ing] a team of advocates that located a facility to provide the care Jahi needed."  More recently, the Network honored the family in its award gala.



I wonder if devoting resources to litigate this case and to provide mechanical interventions for Jahi McMath's body was prudent for the Life & Hope Network.  After all, it is one thing to protect vulnerable adults from coercion, manipulation, bias, and conflict of interest that might hasten death.  It is quite another to defend the dead themselves.  Some donors may feel that the Jahi McMath case falls outside the appropriate scope of the organization's mission.