Now take that uncertainty about what constitutes being dead into the realm of organ procurement and you'll find the reason why I'm not registered as a doner. If you can wake up after hours, days, or even years of very little brain activity what's to say you won't feel it when they start cutting you open for all those goodies that are going to spoil it they don't act fast. After all, your "dead" why would they waste any money on anesthesia?
You expect this in some less developed parts of the world but the top two examples given are both in USA. One in Iowa and another in New York.
Legally if you're declared brain dead they can't use any form of anesthesia because then it implies you weren't dead. They are rethinking the whole "brain death" thing and the timing because they're discovering the brain is functioning longer than they thought it dead (four minutes without oxygen and the brain dies) or "five minutes of asystole and the patient can be declared legally dead".
Aint no organ donor, aint no tissue donor. Will only donate blood to friends or family. Naught else.
Organ and tissue donation is nothing but money just like abortion.
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