This was supposed to be an urban legend, but I have been told of many cases by people who said they heard it from someone who heard it from someone, which often means it wasn't happening.
This video is from a Catholic network, which is not a hysterical anti science site, since Catholics recognize brain death as death. But the cardiac death criteria which has been used in receent years, is the real problem, since the brain is still alive and is a fuzzier criteria since if the heart stops too long the organs are unusable, so often there is a rush to declare death.
here is the information off of a twitter post which for some reason I am unable to post:from the HHS:The US Department of Health and Human Services under RFK Jr. is announcing a major initiative to overhaul the organ transplant system after an HRSA investigation uncovered significant problems: HRSA examined 351 cases where organ donation was authorized, but ultimately not completed. It found: •103 cases (29.3%) showed concerning features, including 73 patients with neurological signs incompatible with organ donation. •At least 28 patients may not have been deceased at the time organ procurement was initiated—raising serious ethical and legal questions. •Evidence pointed to poor neurologic assessments, lack of coordination with medical teams, questionable consent practices, and misclassification of causes of death, particularly inoverdose cases.
30 years ago, when bioethicist Dr Caplan went for his Pennsylvania driver's license, when he asked the clerk how to add organ donor to his license, she cautioned him: Don't sign it or they will let you die. He wrote a letter about this to JAMA (sorry no date or link). But I know that I have heard too many people tell me of anecdotes they heard from someone who heard it from someone that a person was waking up when they tried to take their organs.
Trust is already being destroyed in the medical profession, and this will not help.
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