As a little follow on, I have been reconsidering my organ donor selection on my driver’s license. Far too many of the organs are useless if they wait until you are “100%, blood not flowing” dead before taking them, so the transplant doctors are a little quick on the trigger to get the organs while your heart is still beating. They make the utilitarian decision of taking necessary organs from one person who probably won’t survive for the next few hours to give/sell (little difference considering the price the medical system charges for organ removal/transport/implant) to someone who might not survive without them.
They have to take organs while the heart is still beating, that’s why “brain death” is the criteria for death in these cases, not cardiac arrest.
I was considering checking yes on organ donations, but I think the euthanasia crowd is very much involved in that. Quick to pull the plug if there is someone who REALLY needs your kidney — fresh — and you are not looking too good. Of course, you could be one of those folks who is in a coma for two months and then comes to life.
The more I investigated it, the more I decided I would NEVER check that box. Sounds ‘nice,’ but it is evil.
It comes down to a matter of trust. Who do you trust?