When registering to become an organ donor at the DMV, well-meaning people are told that they are "giving the gift of life," but Dr. Klessig says this is a complete misnomer based on what she knows about how the process really works.
"When you go to sign up to be an organ donor, you go to the Department of Motor Vehicles and you see the brightly-colored signs saying 'give the gift of life,' you're not offered a consent form," she explains in the video below.
"You're never told that when you become a brain-dead organ donor, you are not biologically dead. These people have a beating heart. Their lungs are working. Their digestive system works. Their kidneys work."
Because of how the word sounds, braindead can make it seem like a person is pretty much already dead and ready for their organs to be harvested and given to someone else in need. The truth, though, is that being braindead does not mean that a person is actually dead.
"People who have been declared braindead have delivered healthy babies," Dr. Klessig says. "These people are in no way dead." ...<<<Read More>>>...