[43north]

Please cite your source. In my experience, people who die from traumatic brain injuries - especially (and unfortunately) young ones - are the prime source of organ donations. What ER do you work in?

I see lots of traumatic injuries from auto accidents but most are survivable. I see lots of very gruesome injuries from MC accidents and the worst ones I don’t see because they go right to the county morgue.

Sorry, you just can’t get around those pesky laws of physics.

[BraveMan]

Please cite your source.

If you glance at my FReeper page you can see my source . . .

Jacob died at the scene from the head injuries he received in the accident (though he was a belted passenger in an airbag equipped vehicle). We agreed that his organs should be donated. I was quite puzzled when we were told his organs couldn't be used, because he was a strong, physically fit and healthy 16 year old at the time of the accident; a model donor if there ever was one.

We were informed by personnel at the Wisconsin Tissue Bank that when traumatic, fatal head injuries occur the body releases chemicals that destroy internal organ viability, rendering them unsuitable for donation.

Jacob's skin and bone were donated to 244 recipients in 44 states, through the efforts of the Wisconsin Donor Network.