[markomalley]

If anybody's interested, the authors advanced the following idea a couple of years ago: Death Fiction and Taking Organs from the Living:

But there is another more radical way to increase the supply of organs. We could abandon the dead donor rule. We could for example, allow organs to be taken from people who are not brain dead, but who have suffered such severe injury that they would be permanently unconscious, like Terry Schiavo, who would be allowed to die anyway by removal of their medical treatment.

[Global2010]

I hope the author has people who plan to Pray for Mercy on his soul when he dies.