“Those donors are known not to be brain dead but are usually first in a coma and the doctor decides treatment is futile.”
And they wonder why more people don’t check off the organ donor consent on their driver’s licences.
What bothers me when I read stories like this is that my mom got a Kidney from a young 18-year-old girl who was apparently in a motorcycle accident. The donation of her organs gave my mom an extra ten years of life, and saved numerous others as well...
I just hope to God that the young woman who died was really “dead” and not just considered “hopeless”... I mean I’m glad my Mom got the transplant, but man... Knowing these things makes it a lot harder for me to check that box as you said. I’d have no problem donating organs after I was done with them - seems some of these donors might not be nowadays... THAT is just scary!