[SuziQ]

The procedure, also known as donation after cardiac death (DCD), typically involves a person who requires a ventilator and, although he has measurable brain function, is determined to have no hope of recovery.

Sounds like some sort of human sacrifice.

If the brain is still functioning, the person is ALIVE!! Whether he or she has any chance of recovering to society's measure of functionality is beside the point. You don't harvest necessary organs from someone who is still alive.

[cricket]

You don't harvest necessary organs from someone who is still alive.

They will not do it 'live'; perhaps like the Chinese do it. . .a gun; at the base of the skull; and with a silencer. THEN. . .they harvest. . .