I'm a nurse and briefly worked in a post op care unit. There was a patient there, a young man of 19. He'd had a choking episode and consequent lack of oxygen. Paramedics revived him, and he was admitted. Not sure why he was in post op, but doctors kept pushing his family to get an EEG which they did. He was NOT brain dead, not on life support, but they kept asking about his desire to be an organ donor. It was both weird and horrifying. I don't know the outcome because I left that unit a few days later. He was an otherwise healthy person. I later witnessed the "harvesting" team visit other families when death of a loved one was imminent. It is ghoulish and awful.
I'm a nurse and briefly worked in a post op care unit. There was a patient there, a young man of 19. He'd had a choking episode and consequent lack of oxygen. Paramedics revived him, and he was admitted. Not sure why he was in post op, but doctors kept pushing his family to get an EEG which they did. He was NOT brain dead, not on life support, but they kept asking about his desire to be an organ donor. It was both weird and horrifying. I don't know the outcome because I left that unit a few days later. He was an otherwise healthy person. I later witnessed the "harvesting" team visit other families when death of a loved one was imminent. It is ghoulish and awful.