Posted on 10/17/2024 6:06:49 PM PDT by fruser1
A terrified organ donor came back to life, thrashing and crying on the operating room table, as surgeons prepared to harvest his body parts, according to witnesses - with one described as 'everybody's worst nightmare.'
Thomas 'TJ' Hoover II, 36, had been declared brain dead when surgeons went to remove his organs at Baptist Health Richmond Hospital in Kentucky in October 2021, his sister and former Kentucky Organ Donor Affiliates employees told NPR.
But as doctors went to test his heart health for transplantation, Hoover reportedly became reanimated.
'He was thrashing around on the table,' Nyckoletta Martin recounted, claiming the patient was just sedated.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Not the best wording, Doc. Having your guts cut out with you watching is kind of a serious problem. Still, maybe he's right:
"Doctor, we can't harvest the patient's liver, kidneys, corneas, pancreas, thyroid, and lungs! He's still alive!"
"Not to worry, Nurse. After we're done he won't be."
I seem to recall a Monty Python sketch to this effect...
If worst come to worst, let your family make that decision when it is obvious that you are definitely a goner.
Even back when medical ethics were a lot higher, there was some times a temptation to call things a bit early if you were a blue chip donor candidate.
In todays world - forget about it
This is why they used to put bells on caskets. And that’s where the expression ‘saved by the bell’ came from. So I guess it has happened before.
I’ll be accused of being heartless but I’m glad I’m not a donor.
We saw what the perverse incentive of money in exchange for covid deaths did for some places.
They began to beag about how many died.
With donors, the hospital has an incentive to not help you and make a quick buck off your untimely demise.
He probably had a Harris sticker on his car so they figured him for brain dead.
Who knows.
“Even back when medical ethics were a lot higher, there was some times a temptation to call things a bit early if you were a blue chip donor candidate.”
Quincy did a show on that some 45 or so years ago. I don’t think they intended it, but that was the end of being a donor for me.
That’s pretty good timing. Awesome timing really. Another five minutes before coming around and ...
Ultimately, the organ retrieval was canceled, and several employees quit in the aftermath.
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It must have been awful to be told they would go ahead with it anyway, they just have to find another doctor.
George Washington was one of the people with a fear of being buried alive. He left instructions about his death.
“On his deathbed on December 14, 1799, Washington told his personal secretary, Tobias Lear, to “Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead”.”
Interesting article on taphophobia.
My license is currently checked as an organ donor, but I have been intending to change it after learning how corrupt the medical industry is.
This story is going to put a fire under me to get it done!
Old Dean Martin joke.
In the dark, in the morgue, the middle of the night.
Guy says “is that you coffin?”
Wise up.
Boxing slang
The phrase originated in boxing as a way to describe when a boxer is saved from defeat by the bell at the end of a round. The phrase became common in the late 19th century and eventually entered the mainstream.
Coffin myth
A myth claims that people invented “safety coffins” in the 17th century to prevent people from being buried alive. The coffins were said to have a bell attached to the deceased’s finger so they could ring it if they woke up. However, there’s no evidence that these coffins were ever used.
I stopped my organ donor card over 20 years ago.
Considering it did happen I can not see this kind of fear as being unreasonable.
I always thought you had to be dead first.
The new things you learn every day.
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