Re: Organ Donations
Also, brain death is generally a requirement prior to organ removal for transplantation. If you think that doctors are declaring people brain dead (or hoping/helping them to end up that way) then you should seriously consider a tin-foil hat to protect yourself.
Having been directly involved in many organ donation situations, I can assure you that organ donation only comes up when there is absolutely no hope for recovery. To be honest, we wait too long in many cases and organs are no longer usable in order to make sure that the patient has no chance.
A few weeks ago I heard back from the organ bank that one of our patients donated to I think 7 or 8 separate recipients. She was a relatively young woman who had a horrible bleed in her brain. We would have done anything to save her but she was brain dead.
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