loses brain function
can feel pain
X to doubt
The person who posted this is a solid example of such a case
That would imply they had brain function to begin with.
X for conspiracy!
I hate BS like this. And yes I’m biased because I got a double lung transplant. There are so many myths about organ donation. You basically have to have no brain activity and be stable.
That’s awesome. My niece passed away several years ago waiting on lungs to become available (CF). Everyone in the family is an organ donor now. If we’re not using them might as well give someone else a shot.
I was diagnosed CF at three months old. I made it into my 20’s before I was on oxygen full time and was listed for a transplant. I got my transplant over 15 years ago and I’m still doing awesome now.
So I try to thank donors in advance on behalf of the potential recipients of those life saving gifts.
Well that person has no brain activity but they're also unstable so that's an issue
Holy shit, what led to that and how are you now?
Cystic fibrosis, it’s a genetic thing. The lungs have a harder time clearing mucus out and that eventually scars the lungs and reduces lung function.
When I was born they didn’t even know what caused it (DNA defect that has a 25% chance of being passed to a child when both parents are CF carriers) .
Now they have target medications to fix the genes that were damaged. It’s pretty amazing.
I’m over 15 years post transplant and am doing great.
What I really don’t get with these sort of theories is: If something as unethical and outlandish as harvesting organs from a healthy, living person were occurring like this, you really think they’re going to look at a little checkbox on your driver’s license and be like “ah dang no permission for evil today, guess this fucker gets to live”
It's the same with SovCits. They think the entire world is a vast conspiracy to generate wealth from their existence and hide it from them, but the people who run the thing can't just ignore their specifically worded letter.
At least they're half right.
The gold standard to declare brain death is nuclear medicine scan of brain blood circulation. This is done in addition to bedside brain death testing and even EEG if the family wants it all. We fucking KNOW if a patient has cerebral blood flow or not. This person is ridiculously incorrect.
The author knows this is true because that's how their brain got removed. 🙄
If I'm so injured they're not sure I'll make it, but they can save someone else with my organs, please do that.
Yeesh.
What is an hour of agony while I’m already suffering and dying to added years of reduced pain to someone who isn’t dying anymore. I don’t know what all I owe my fellow humans, but I know they deserve that.
I ride motorcycles. When I was young I heard them referred to as "organ donation machines" because Texas doesn't have a helmet law and in any kind of real crash you're gonna be at least braindead (I do wear a helmet now, but didn't in my misspent youth).
They were trying to talk me out of riding. All they really did was convince me to register as a donor.
Well, that helmet won't always save you. My first cousin died in a motorcycle crash of a broken neck. Otherwise, he didn't have a scratch on him. Be safe out there.
No, no. You gotta use the real medical terms. Riders are "organ donors," and the bikes are "angel makers."
You know, that's exactly right. When I had to have heart surgery, they put me out. In fact, I asked the doc if they could sedate me early cause I was anxious, and he said sure. I woke up with no heart, not eyes, no liver, you get it. How I've been able to survive since is a fucking miracle. I'm like a living zombie.
Give me back my organs, gubment!
These people are hilarious except for the part where they vote.
I’m not sure about other states, but the one I live in usually requires two brain death tests at least 6 hours apart and by different MDs that have to be credentialed to perform brain death testing. They also have(and usually perform) an apnea test where they turn the ventilator off for a set period of time and see if the patient initiates any breathes on their own as well as measuring blood gases before and after the procedure. Finally, they often use an injected nucleotide to measure blood flow to the brain, taking multiple images of several angles to confirm that there is no blood flowing to the brain.
If the person was on any paralytics, they have to be cleared from the system before testing can begin as well as all labs such as sodium, potassium, etc. and body temperature must be within normal parameters to begin.
If all those things are confirmed, the person is legally declared dead with an official time of death and only then can the legal next of kin be approached for organ donation.
Basically, this person is bonkers(as we all know) and organ donation is highly regulated.
Well, he ain't completely wrong.
The "no brain activity" is based on trust that the doctor in question knows what the hell they're talking about and doesn't have a reason to lie, so it's usually recommended to get multiple independent opinions to avoid the possibility of malpractice.
People have been declared legally dead, only to wake up at various points past it, such as the morgue, during autopsy, in the casket without an autopsy, already buried.
And there have been reports of partial resistance to anaesthetics where patients were paralyzed/partially unconscious, yet felt the pain of operations.
Organ donation is the right thing to do when you're certain to die. However, as proven by the Alabama prison system recently, where there's profit to be made, abuse is the norm, not the exception.
People have been declared legally dead, only to wake up at various points past it, such as the morgue, during autopsy, in the casket without an autopsy, already buried.
This bit of evidence doesn't really support the overarching theory. Since the 1980s there have been only a couple dozen of these incidents, and they for the most part always have one common denominator, the affected persons being very old.
It can be harder to accurately find the pulse and other life signs on the elderly, and people aren't as likely to really search for signs of life on someone who looks as fragile as a terminally ill elderly patient.
The vast majority of transplants are from young healthy people who were involved in traumatic accidents, and thus wouldn't really be subject to the Lazarus effect.
People have been declared legally dead, only to wake up at various points past it, such as the morgue, during autopsy, in the casket without an autopsy, already buried.
Recently?
How recent do you expect it to be? Here's an article. Activate reader/text mode. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/317645
How accurate it is, dunno. Just searched for one at random.
I'm one of those people who are resistant to anesthesia. Waking up during a colonoscopy, remembering a transesophagel echo, and not being numb during a vasectomy are things I wouldn't recommend experiencing.
In a very rigid sense of being composed living tissue, yes - you are alive during organ donation in most cases. In the sense of being a human being or really even an organism... less so.
If I cut off my arm, the tissue would continue to metabolize for a few minutes (?) but I wouldn't exactly argue for its right to vote.
ARM SUFFRAGE
Conspiracy theorists never have conspiracy theories against people and things they like lol.
Also, I hope whoever took the screenshot got their food from Uber Eats and the driver didn't fuck them over.
But who hates organ donors? It's a strange kind of insanity.
Religious nutters, for one. They believe that when Christ has his Second Coming he will resurrect everyone who has ever died, but only if all their organs and stuff are intact and in place. So organ donation is just a conspiracy by Satan to keep everyone from being gloriously resurrected.
I honestly wonder what they think their bodies will look like a couple decades after they die. Do they think that, because they were ‘good little Christians’, their bodies will be staying as fresh as when they were interred?
Or maybe their ‘all-powerful’ God can only restore their organs from dust if that dust is in the right spot?
To plays devil's advocate there are inconsistent standards of what constitutes dead many established decades ago and whereas some folks are obviously by any standard a potato others including by standards they themselves elect are defunct in ways that we understand far less eg not able to initiate breathing on their own or not capable of regaining consciousnesses. Due to our lack of complete understanding there have been cases in which people were taken off the ventilator to die and spontaneously started breathing. EG our original analysis was obviously incomplete.
What is experienced if anything by those near or even post official death is also an interesting open question. Experiments involving flooding pig heads dead for > 1 hour with oxygenated liquid have shown some sign of electrical activity in cells for instance. We don't even know what the subjective experience of people being operated on really is other than obviously NORMALLY they don't consciously form memories or have control of their faculties.
All of that said organ transplants save so many lives and it is a voluntary process. If you have any concerns whatsoever you ought to think hard about it and make your wishes expressly known rather than blanket shutting the door on saving those lives. I am an organ donor. I have faith in my family to make intelligent decisions if I'm not able to make them.
I've worked in ERs before and am somewhat familiar with the process they use for determining brain death. There was a child that came in with catastrophic brain damage, and the process to determine that the child was in a permanent vegetative state was quite extensive. There were multiple evaluation by neurologists and neurosurgeons via MRI and EEG over the course of multiple days to verify a lack of brain function. It's not something that is determined in the moment. The decision made in the ER is whether or not the organs will be donated because it can make some differences in the life-support care during the brain death determination process.
NORMALLY they don’t consciously form memories or have control of their faculties
And remember, those two states (not being able to form memories AND not having control of faculties) can be, and sometimes are, two different drugs. It's why you have the horror stories of people remembering waking up on the surgery table, but being unable to move.
During this process their heart rate and blood pressure increase substantially.
Ok, but by how much? I'm a registered organ donor and am now concerned that, as I lay paralyzed and semi-conscious with no brain activity while my organs are butchered out of me, the nurse is then gonna be like, "oh no, his heart rate and blood pressure is increasing substantially!"
See, if you're gonna tear my organs out of me in my nightmare state, I want it to be a challenge! You gotta be fast and precise before my blood pressure and pulse explosively increase and I blow out cascades of blood, turning into a sanguineous Water Wiggle. It's gotta be like a game of Perfection that you either harvest everything in time, or my body explodes.
Ok, but by how much? I'm a registered organ donor and am now concerned that, as I lay paralyzed and semi-conscious with no brain activity while my organs are butchered out of me, the nurse is then gonna be like, "oh no, his heart rate and blood pressure is increasing substantially!"
Well for one, you have to have brain function to remain semi-conscious. And part of the way they determine if you are brain dead is seeing if you have any cerebral blood flow. No cerebral blood flow, no consciousness.
Secondly, people without brain function are incapable of controlling their own blood pressure or heart beat. So any increase in heartbeat or blood pressure is being induced by the anesthesiologist to combat the drop in blood pressure from blood loss.
Well, that anesthesiologist better get some more dilithium crystals or start diverting power, cuz I wanna go all in on these thrusters!
So is there any evidence of that insane claim, or...?
The elite is deleting all evidence, but he saw a youtube video from a random guy. That should be proof enough
No doctor whistleblowers or families of victims or anything. No effort at all.
The author just didn't think of the right target group :D
This has all the hallmarks of a good "Creepypasta" story. It's based on something real, then inserts just a quantum of bullshit that would turn a good and real thing into a living nightmare.
Just enterfaining this insane theory. Surely a spike in heart rate and blood pressure would be short lived as a substantial loss of blood right? At what point would there be no more pain from shock? Shortly after a major organ is removed? Anyway, where do people come up with these crazy theories...
why tho. he doesn't get into the why
For shits and giggles, obviously.
It's the last line. "Becomes property of the government."
Quick logically means the government is going to sell your organs for a profit.
No but that doesn't explain why it's mandatory you're alive when they take your organs. Them selling them is a whole different conspiracy theory lol
Somebody during the French revolution was interested in whether the guillotined heads would respond in some way, so he called them by name. Some did.
I read that to be extra cruel, they'd pick the severed head up and show it the body. That way if you remained conscious for a little while after your head is cut off, the last thing you'll see is the horror of your headless body.
Here is a collection of stories for y'all to enjoy: https://mikedashhistory.com/2011/01/25/some-experiments-with-severed-heads/
Fascinating.
Fasces-nating (I know that's Italian, close enough)
All this got me thinking if one could turn abortion into organ donation and work around the abortion bans that are picking up across the US
Perhaps he'd been watching this reliable british documentary?
Finally. I had to scroll way too far for the Monty Python but
I'm a registered organ donor and even if all that were true I'm ok with it. Shit happens.
Take all the organs, and put the rest of me in a haunted house. Use my bones for witch rituals and put my teeth in a big pile to make people not believe in the hogfather.
I'm dead, use every part of me for something.
But people must believe in the hogfather or else the sun won't rise!
John Prine said it best
