Q: Someone told me that if you are an organ donor, the hospitals will keep you alive a little while longer so they can get your organs while they are still fresh. Is this true? I just got my license and I am an organ donor, but I want to die when i'm ready to die. I don't want the people at the hospitals interfering with that just because they want my organs at a certain time. Please tell me what the procedure is for taking out peoples' organs. How soon do they have to take your organs after you die? Do they still take your organs if you die because of old age? Won't the organs be too old to be used on someone else? I am so confused! Please answer!
A: ** Organs are generally only viable from someone who is brain dead...this is not old age, this would be some type of accident leaving someone in a coma or unconcious.*** Here's some info... Google it for more. A Sixty Second View of Organ Transplanting (http://www.geocities.com/organdonate) Heartbeat and blood pressure rise as the surgeon cuts into the supposedly dead organ donor, a similar reaction to a healthy person being attacked with a knife. Some doctors recommend administering anaesthetic, prior to harvesting, to prevent pain to supposedly "brain dead" donors despite the donor officially declared dead. Organ donors get inferior treatment than organ keepers. This happens because treatment to preserve harvestable organs increases the injuries and may even kill the patient. An organ recipient's body experiences the transplanted organ as a malignant invader to be killed. Doctors administer drugs to stop this rejection which then creates similar immune deficiency diseases to AIDS victims.