‘Brain dead’ Quebec woman wakes up after family refuses organ donation

LifeSiteNews ^ | 7/7/11 | Rebecca Millette

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"Brain death" is a term made-up to butcher the living for their "parts."

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[Former Proud Canadian]

“If we had decided to donate her organs, they would have killed her,” said her son.

No kidding.

[healy61]

They were going to butcher the woman for her eyes. Her eyes for crying out loud. Then do what to cover their crime. Let her wake up and find empty eye sockets. They were going to kill her. I would take my jail term and explain to the doctor how wrong it was.

[blueyon]

Praise be to God!

[trisham]

Wow. She could easily live another 20 years! God bless her and her family!

[chesley]

I needed neither a scientist, not an “ethicist” to tell me that a person is either alive, or dead. And until they are dead, they are alive.

That is the reason that I have refused all the generous offers of the DMV to become an organ donor.

[srmorton]

Obamacare coming to a hospital near you!

[little jeremiah]

WOW!!!

Thank GOD the woman woke up!

I’ve come to absolutely loathe organ donation entirely.

[basil]

Yep! IIFC, Canada has a form of obammycare...........

[Political Junkie Too]

I'm not a doctor, but what are the risks of receiving a 76-year-old kidney, or liver, or heart?

What's the lifespan of an organ from someone who is 76 years old?

-PJ

[He Rides A White Horse]

I never check the ‘organ donor’ portion on my drivers license. I never underestimate the greed potential of many people. For this very reason. No slicing and dicing of myself for profit.

[Gamecock]

KRAMER: I didn’t know it was possible to come out of a coma.

JERRY: I didn’t know it was possible not to know that.

[w1andsodidwe]

I saw this same thing happen with a 17 year old boy in the 70's. Because of that, I will not sign the organ donor thing on the back of drivers license.

He was irreversibly brain dead and transferred to our nursing home when the family refused to go along with the organ donation. 6 months later he walked out of our facility to resume his life.

[arthurus]

This is the reason that I refuse to sign any organ donor card and have specifically and in writing refused to participate in any such scheme when I have had to go to the hospital. Having an organ donor card is a powerful incentive for doctors to be premature in their diagnoses of brain death etc. Organs are ever so much more apt to be useful if taken from a still living body than from one that has already died. It is surely the Humanist thing to do. The attitude of a doctor might too well be, “well he’s probably going to die pretty soon, anyway.”

[kabumpo]

I have always been completely against it because it was obvious that the pissibility of obtaining “organs” would turn doctors into ruthless predators.

[trisham]

I hear you. It’s frightening.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

And who would want the organs from a 76 year old person?

Something does not add up here.