You are apparently sadly misinformed about organ procurement practices in the 21st century. Since 2001, more organ donors have been living donors than cadaveric (dead). Most are related to the recipient, but more and more are directed donations from unrelated persons. Furthermore, with advances in organ preservation and harvesting, Donation after Cardiac Death (DCD) is the most common method of cadaveric organ harvest. Brain death is still used as a criteria, but much less often than in the 70's and 80's.
Read a little and broaden your mind. It's fun.
“Brain death is still used as a criteria”
I read a good bit but thanks for the ad hominem anyway.
Did I say that the only organ donations are from brain dead donors?
No.
Did I deny that living people donate organs? No.
Do we indeed use the brain death definition as justification for harvesting organs? Your own words say that we do.
Which was my point, my sole point. We do not use cardiac death exclusively to define death. Back in 1500 they did use it exclusively because they didn’t have machines to register brain activity.
We do harvest organs from brain dead but cardiac alive people. That we also do organ transplants with from the other sorts of donors you listed was irrelevant to my point.
So I didn’t mention it.
But not mentioning something is not the same as denying something.