Nailah Winkfield (left) and Omari Sealey, the mother and uncle of Jahi McMath, listen to doctors speak during a news conference in San Francisco in 2014. Eric Risberg/AP hide caption toggle caption Eric Risberg/AP News Jahi McMath, Teen At Center Of Medical And Religious Debate On Brain Death, Has Died June 29, 2018 • McMath was put on life support in 2013 after a tonsillectomy. Doctors said she had irreversible brain damage, and a coroner issued a death certificate. Her mother never agreed with that assessment.
