[Silentgypsy]

You don’t remove an AICD. You just turn it off with a magnet. If the medical people didn’t want to deactivate it, it was probably because of the legal issues that would arise if the execution had been botched and he survived with some sequelae that weren’t present prior to the event.

[Pontiac]

You don’t remove an AICD. You just turn it off with a magnet.

I thought you could turn them off without removing them.

I was going by what written in the article.