This is bothersome. Whatever happened to death occurring when the heart stops beating???
If the heart actually stops beating, it can’t be used... Therefore, they have to make up some other ridiculous tests to declare the person “dead”.
My Mother was the recipient of a kidney transplant (from a young woman who died in a motorcycle accident on Christmas Eve). I am very grateful to have had an extra 10 years with my Mom. However, whenever I hear stories like this I have to wonder whether the young woman really was dead, or not??? Would she have had a chance to grow up, finish college, get married, to be a Mom herself if it weren’t for the fact that she ended up at a hospital that was one of the first in the nation to do multiple transplants (IIRC the program my Mom was a part of was still a “study”-type program, and was directly tied to that hospital/university). It’s true that this young woman’s organs ended up in 8 different people, and she “saved” many lives through her death, but it’s extremely disconcerting when one wonders what really went on that night. I’d like to think what we were told was true - massive head trauma due to not wearing a helmet when they crashed, no possibility of survival, but who really knows...