Some of your parts are only of value for transplantation while you breathe. The ***** donor card gives doctors your permission (under contract law) to remove your organs from your warm and breathing and UN-anesthetized, doctor-declared โbrain-deadโ body. This isn't speculation. Doctors admit to โharvesting organsโ from โbrain-dead patientsโ i.e. patients with pulses.
WEB/ Numerous accounts of patients who have recovered after a firm diagnosis of โbrain deathโ demonstrate that โbrain deadโ patients are not certainly dead. Here are two cases:
Zack Dunlap, a 21-year-old Oklahoman, flipped over on his 4-wheeler and suffered catastrophic brain injuries in November 2007. Thirty-six hours after his accident, doctors at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls, Texas, declared him โbrain dead.โ Preparations to harvest his organs were underway when friends and relatives gathered to say their final goodbyes. His cousin, a nurse, wanting to make certain, scraped his pocket knife along the bottom of Zackโs foot. Zack ****** his foot away. Just months later, Zack was walking and talking. Zack recalled hearing the doctor say he was dead and being โmad insideโ but unable to move.
Steven Thorpe, a British 17-year-old, suffered horrific injuries in a multi-car accident. Four doctors declared him โbrain dead.โ Doctors asked his family to consider donating his organs before his life-support was turned off. The family sought a second opinion from a neurologist who detected faint brain waves. Seven weeks later, Steven was discharged from the hospital having made a near-full recovery. In 2013, at age 21, now an accountant trainee, he spoke to the media for the first time: โHopefully (my experience) can help people see you should never give up. My father believed I was aliveโand he was correct.โ