Organ transplants and the definition of death
From Yuval Levin at the Corner:
The definition of death is very simple. Nowadays it is defined as "brain death" which is when the brain stops. Excuse me but that's not death. The brain is only one organ of the many organs that sustain life. The most important organ is and always has been the heart. Death occurs when the heart stops beating. Period!
"Brain death" is a fabrication which had been invented by surgeons who are greedy to harvest organs for their experimental surgeries. I've seen the beating heart cut out of a man to be used as a "transplant" because he was declared "brain dead" after a motorcycle accident. I kept him alive for hours with IV fluid and antibiotics.
Do you know how many people who have been declared brain dead (because they are in a coma) who have recovered? Plenty - but even one is enough to make me realize that "brain death" is a lie concocted by insane "scientists."
The Washington Post today brings us a front page story about the deterioration of the brain death standard in organ donation. Surgeons in Denver, in a federally-funded study, have been removing the hearts of brain-damaged newborns just a minute or so after they are disconnected from life support, to transplant them into other newborns with heart problems. By the usual (and legal) standard of death, these “donors” are not dead, and are killed by the extraction of the organs. There is certainly room for debate about the brain death standard itself, but as Boston University bioethicist George Annas is quoted saying in the article, “I understand that they would like us to change the definition of death, but they can’t do that by themselves. It’s very problematic to start treating a baby as an organ donor before it’s dead.”I worked in hospital pharmacies for many years. I've worked on night shift when most transplants are done. I've watched transplants. I've made IVs to keep "donors" alive until their organs were removed. I've seen with my own eyes that the donors are alive until the organs are removed. That's why I will not sign an organ donor card.
James Burdick, director of the division of transplantation at the Health Resources and Services Administration (an arm of the federal department of Health and Human Services), and the only federal official cited in the article, is quoted saying that the argument about whether the babies in question are dead is just “fussy semantics.”
The definition of death is very simple. Nowadays it is defined as "brain death" which is when the brain stops. Excuse me but that's not death. The brain is only one organ of the many organs that sustain life. The most important organ is and always has been the heart. Death occurs when the heart stops beating. Period!
"Brain death" is a fabrication which had been invented by surgeons who are greedy to harvest organs for their experimental surgeries. I've seen the beating heart cut out of a man to be used as a "transplant" because he was declared "brain dead" after a motorcycle accident. I kept him alive for hours with IV fluid and antibiotics.
Do you know how many people who have been declared brain dead (because they are in a coma) who have recovered? Plenty - but even one is enough to make me realize that "brain death" is a lie concocted by insane "scientists."
posted by Joubert at 10:58 PM
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