From your referenced material. “Nevertheless, patients with these signs of life — normal heart rate, normal temperature and normal blood pressure — are sometimes determined to be “brain dead.” The procedures used to make this determination, therefore, would not be acceptable to the Holy Father.”
Nothing I said contradicts this statement from the Pope.
At no time is a person who is sustained by artificial means will have normal heart rate and blood pressure as without the artificial means he would have neither a heart rate or a blood pressure.
I have intimate knowledge of the brain dead as our second son had suffered a stroke while in the hospital. We had brought him in for a viral infection he got an atrial fibrillation while being treated and we decided to disconnect his life support when it was determined that he suffered a stroke and became brain dead. There was simply no hope that he would regain consciousness.
My wife and I held him for the last time as they disconnected his life support machines. He was dead within a minute without life support.
We received plenty of counsel about the moral aspects of our decision from our parish priest and the Catholic Chaplain on staff.
Oh, forgive me, I wasn’t talking about you personally. I just put that piece out there for everyone’s information.