No and no. However, organs are "harvested" routinely from patients who are openly acknowledged not to be brain dead. The process is called "non beating heart procurement." In this situation, patients who are severely injured, but not brain dead, are taken with the consent of the family to the OR. The ventilator is turned off with procurement surgeons standing by. When the patient is pronounced dead, the organs are harvested.
I am not making this up. It is "legal" and it happens all the time. I have seen it. In fact, I have been pressured to participate.
Interesting. Thanks for posting.
Kinda like abortion .... teach women they have a “right to choose” to kill their babies in utero so they aren’t inconvenienced, then “science” can use the dead babies for research in stem cells. It’s all the same in my view.
Sounds fine to me, but it should be subject to an advance directive from the patient (except in the case of minors, whose parents should have the right to make the call). I would choose to have my organs made available while they’re still in a condition that can save other people.