After Buddhist dies, legal battle continues

Last week, doctors declared Cheng, a grandfather of seven who suffered cardiac arrest the day after Thanksgiving, brain-dead and said it was time to remove him from the ventilators and intravenous medicines keeping his organs functioning. But the family refused to let doctors take Cheng off the life-support system because his heart was still beating.

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