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To: grassboots.org

We have a legal definition of brain death: NO more brain activity. We need organ donors, and if I can´t recover, I will give others a 2nd life.


674 posted on 03/18/2005 11:54:09 AM PST by Michael81Dus
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To: Michael81Dus

"We have a legal definition of brain death: NO more brain activity."

You are badly misinformed. You must think that "brain death" is determined by some machine that measures waves and when the waves stop you are dead. That is science fiction, not science. Read up on it. Yours is not a medical definition of "brain death"
If there is no brain activity, no machine can keep you "alive" in a body that is functioning in any way. The bodies of people who are supposedly "brain dead" do all kinds of functions. The blood that circulates is not hand-walked through your body. The "nerve" lines between the brain, heart and lungs are working (alive).


If what you say was true we could go take bodies out of the ground and make their hearts beat and their lungs breathe, we cannot.

Give your organs if you wish, but know that they will be taking them from you, a person still alive.


1,043 posted on 03/18/2005 12:37:07 PM PST by grassboots.org (I Breathe and My Heart is Beating - I am by definition alive!)
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To: Michael81Dus

Brain death only occurs when your brain cannot regulate your breathing and your heart rate.

Terri is on no life support, she breathes and beats without support.

The death by starvation and dehydration will render her organs unusable, they will be ruined.

Her death does not help anyone else.


1,337 posted on 03/18/2005 1:25:05 PM PST by TASMANIANRED (Certified cause of Post Traumatic Redhead Syndrome)
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