Breaking new video obtained by @cnn shows Mitch McConnell being carried out on a stretcher.

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6. The brain DOES NOT endure long when blood flow to it has stopped.

Machines can keep 'the body' functioning when the brain no longer does, but is that life?

I had to give the order to 'turn off the machines' when my husband's brain was too long without O2 on ambulance trip to hospital. ER crew worked fast & furious but the brain would not/could not restart the system. Machines could have kept his tough body going, but he wasn't there anymore and would have been pissed as hell if I didn't give the order to 'let him go'. Autopsy showed the aorta had blown out and though his strong heart kept beating for a pretty good spell, it couldn't get blood to the brain anymore.

It's a really tough call to make, but the only caring one in many circumstances. Nine years later, yes, I have learned to laugh again, but the crying still happens. Love him, miss him, had to be brave for him.

Too bad for Mitch that he was so unloved by 'loved ones' and colleagues that they are keeping alive a shell because he is of more use to them as a non-functioning, non-viable bag of cells than a human who deserves to take his rest.