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LisaL

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11. This sounds more than just gross negligence to me.

Reply to avebury (Reply #3)

Sun Oct 20, 2024, 03:48 PM

Oct 2024

The guy was showing obvious signs of life, reacting in pain to tests the hospital was doing to test his organs for viability.
Why were the signs of life ignored?

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Who the heck would ever want to agree to be an organ donor after this? [View all] avebury Oct 2024 OP

If he wasn't an organ donor, he might have woken up during his cremation instead petronius Oct 2024 #1

The family should have sued the hospital and doctors avebury Oct 2024 #3

This sounds more than just gross negligence to me. LisaL Oct 2024 #11

Maybe his organs were needed for a wealthy malaise Oct 2024 #16

I don't think organ donation is the scary part, I think incompetent medical care is. Think. Again. Oct 2024 #2

What is horrifying is the fact that the kid kept waking up avebury Oct 2024 #7

Yes, this guy was certainly not dead, because he was reacting to his environment, when LisaL Oct 2024 #10

He was never dead, they claimed he was brain dead. Mosby Oct 2024 #18

Not me! raccoon Oct 2024 #4

Jesus...these people are so desperate for these organs that they will willingly overlook the donors is still alive SWBTATTReg Oct 2024 #5

I dunno. LisaL Oct 2024 #8

THIS malaise Oct 2024 #17

They didn't take any organs out. LisaL Oct 2024 #6

He was the only one that acted correctly. Everybody up until that point avebury Oct 2024 #9

A few years ago I read an entire book on organ donation. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2024 #12

I haven't been an organ donor since this: Hassin Bin Sober Oct 2024 #13

I am, and shall remain a donor. cloudbase Oct 2024 #14

I am and shall remain an organ donor, as I have been since my early 20s. Now that I'm in my late 70s... Hekate Oct 2024 #15