Many people have been in a coma, not expected to recover or live that have fully recovered. Including my mother, who was in a coma for 29 days, with “no hope”; she fully recovered and lived another 50 healthy, years. My husbands niece was in a car wreck at 18, and the doctors suggested to her parents that they consider organ donation and remove life support- they didn’t and now she is a very healthy 27. That is what causes the controversy- “experts” truly don’t know that much about the human brain- Doctors really don’t know who might recover and how much. Doctors are only making educated guesses when it comes to brain damage, many people including me are not willing to bet their life on a guess, not even an educated one.
You are correct in that the brain is a difficult and unpredictable organ in terms of function post injury. I’m glad your family members were able to make a full functional recovery and hopefully you realize how rare those two family members are and He was looking over them.
I am glad to hear that your niece and mother have fully recovered. You are right that the experts do not know much about the brain. If you want something to go wrong, hope for the heart. The experts know almost everything about the heart.
I don’t know the specifics of your cases, but I would caution you that brain death is far different from a coma, or a patient on life support. It is a medically verifiable condition, that must be met before a patient is even considered a candidate for donation. There are numerous other procedures that must occur as well.
By suggesting removal from life support, it would seem like they were not interested in organ donation. Once life support is removed, the organs are not usable.
Sometimes the hospitals mention it as a means to start the tissue typing process, just in case. But that certainly doesn’t mean they are ready to start removing organs. Medical professionals can be insensitive, which can be terrifying to the families of patients. But there are plenty of laws to prevent organs from being harvested from patients that are not really dead.