Its good to know her death helped save a life...My husband died in the back yard....I did CPR on him until the ambulance came, living in the country that took a while. When we got to the hospital they tried to revive him for over 1/2 hour. He had always said he would like to be a donor, so I discussed with the doctor that gave us the news that he was dead what could be done...Nothing except skin could be donated, it had been too long since his heart stopped and any organs were useless for donation...He was only 51 at the time, no history of heart problems, it was his one and only heart attack...
Organs must be donated from a living body, the organs are useless if time has lapsed between death and harvest...
But as I said earlier, I'm using up mine.....
what a terrible thing for you to go through.
Yes...it is under rare circumstances that the organs are of use...and even then it is often difficult to find a proper match.
While they found a match for my daughter’s heart, her kidneys, lungs, and liver were not donated.