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Old 05.22.2008, 01:38 PM   #44
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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
its not about what happens after you die, you are not dead when they resuscitate you, you are just unconscious, they prolong and agonize your death in order to harvest you like a butcher, now it may be for a good cause, but that is quite the sacrifice, you and I do not know what people's true last moments are, or what they are worth, but from the religious traditions and rituals associated with death and last right's rituals, I would assume it is a significant spiritual/metaphysical experience. that being said, I would not want to fuck with that for anything, even if I was the one who needed the organ. surely the 15-20 minutes they save by keeping near dead folks alive to preserve their organs is not worth the interruption of a persons last exprience of this world.

those are extreme cases.
most organ donors are sudden deaths, not people on respirators and shit like that.
keeping a brain dead body alive for even an hour allows time to take out organs and use them, as many of them are only good for a few dozen minutes once removed from the body
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