Just in case any of you fellas have been living under a stone, never eve...not ever not never...sign an organ donor card. Organs are not harvested from the dead, they are plucked from the mostly dead (((i.e. "brain dead"))) which means you're still slightly alive.
"All dead? Well, there's only one thing you can do. Go through his pockets and look for loose change."
-Miracle Max Princess Bride 1987 (Quite possibly one of the most Jewowitz of lines in one of the most archetypal Jewenstein portrayals on celluloid)
Very important notice.
If you walk in (or are wheeled in) and you have an organ donor card. You are a goat into satanic cult den.
You can sue for malpractice and the profit of organs would still make it worth.
Yeah, I've let my mom and boyfriend know I will never be an organ donor and not to give up on me if they say I'm braindead. Those fuckers lie about everything and anything to get money and I know I'm more valuable to them dead than alive.
Brain death means death of the entire brain and brain stem. The problem is where they believe the brain is irreparably damaged after four minutes of anoxia, they're equivocating on when death actually does occur.
TV and movies are not reliable sources of medical legal definitions.
Just so you are aware, many states have "preconsent" and "presumed" consent laws for organ donation. You must OPT OUT of your state's organ donor registry.
You want to donate? Just remember hospitals and other organizations are making millions of dollars on organs and tissues. And your family gets nothing but an atta boy. For sale at time of death or nothing.