Though doctors have said Joseph is in a “vegetative state,” Dr. Byrne called it a “made-up term” similar to the notion of “brain death,” which he said was invented “simply to get beating hearts for transplantation.”
Is this your position also? That there is no such thing as "brain death"?
I'm sure there are legitimate cases of "brain death." Unfortunately, like "vegetative state" it is a term that is readily abused, and was coined of set purpose.