Prior to the relatively new standard called "brain death," person was not deemed to be dead until after his or her heart had stopped beating for a certain number of minutes.
This displeased the transplant industry, because desirable organs could begin to deteriorate while the patient's heart continued to beat.
Now, with the changed standard, a "transplant team" can begin to "harvest" a person's organs while he or she is still very much alive, by the prior standard.
It's my understanding that the "organ harvesting" process often involves no anesthesia, and that the unanesthetized person's body thrashes around violently in reaction to the transplant team's knives. We are supposed to believe that the person who is "brain dead" feels nothing - even though his or her body is reacting strongly to the assault. According to the industry, "It's only reflexes." That's the same phrase that was applied to Terri Schiavo to dismiss her reactions to her parents.
I didn't know that. Talk about ghoulish. They cut pre-born babies up the same way.
Sounds very gruesome
OMG that is unspeakably horrible. What about the doctors who cut out the organs of those victims thrashing about on the operating table? How can these monsters sleep at night?