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To: Texas_shutterbug
My husband and I both believe in organ donation and want to donate our organs, but ONLY when the other has determined that the patient is truly brain dead.

Using that criteria, your chances of even donating are practically nil. very few terminal patients ever achieve "brain death". What initiates transplant, is the medical fact that the patient is terminal, not brain dead.

23 posted on 04/12/2007 7:15:15 AM PDT by Cold Heat (Mitt....2008)
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To: Cold Heat

So, are they harvesting organs before the patient is really dead? If so, this is speeding up the death, isn’t it?
Isn’t that euthanasia?


31 posted on 04/12/2007 7:41:42 AM PDT by Muzzle_em (A proud warrior of the Pajamahadeen)
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To: Cold Heat

Actually, I should have clarified. We haven’t signed on our driver’s licenses. In the event of an accident, we want each other to have a say say in whether or not we’re really “dead” or with no hope of recovery.


52 posted on 04/12/2007 9:26:29 AM PDT by Texas_shutterbug
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