They added that it has 'long been her choice' to be an organ donor, so she will remain technically alive until the check is complete.
The ugly truth about organ donation is that the machines will only be turned off until after the surgery to extract the organs is finished. And during the surgery, pain meds are administered to make sure the donor does not feel anything. Think about that. The medical community knows that 'brain-dead' people are capable of feeling pain. Do you think they tell the family of the donor any of this when they're trying to get them to sign the documents?
There is a false belief among the public that the machines are turned off first, and then the body is taken away and the organs are harvested.
ECMO Machines. At least we go through the pretense of putting them on the machines when the person is largely insensible.
The Communist Chinese take dissidents off the street, put them on these machines, and begin to harvest their organs over time while the person is completely cognizant.
My SIL had her plug pulled first, they told us that after pulling the plug she had to die within 30 minutes or the organs could not be harvested. Fortunately she died immediately after turning off the machines. I watched this happen. She was then taken to surgery and her cornea’s and kidneys were donated and she saved a little kids life with a kidney. These organ donations are a work in concert with care flights all over the country. They have the flights on standby and people waiting to whisk the organ to anywhere in the Country. It’s all pre arranged, the date and time of turning off the life support. They kept SIL alive for 4 days while all the organ donations were planned and where they were going. The people were there ready to get those organs and immediately take them in iced coolers to the new recipients. It was all pre planned and frankly kinda cool to see how it worked.