Thank you, T'wit.
I've been trying to educate folks on this fact for 10 years now.
Organs from dead people are useless. They need organs from people who have been decalred dead through word craft, not through physical fact.
Pinz
It happened last year in my in-law family to a person who had suffered carbon monoxide poisoning. I had no say in the matter and could only look on in frustration. Not only was the patient still alive, she* wasn't "brain dead" according to the Harvard Conditions. Brain death includes the brain stem, meaning that a genuinely brain-dead patient must be kept alive on a ventilator. (Even Harvard insisted on that.) In this case, she not only could breathe on her own, she was
treatable. But they cut her up anyway... ignoring her specific instructions not to allow organ harvest.
* For privacy, I change the sex of the patient and another detail or two each time I tell this story. This time it's a she :-)