A real incident.
The doctors had been working to stabilize a guy for hours hoping to save the organs. They'd have given up long before, but he signed his donor card, which meant (in that state) he was a donor no matter what, the family couldn't come in and say no.
To donate you need to be brain-dead but stable. So he was ventilated and they were doing everything they could to get a stable heartbeat. They finally got him to that point and they were about to notify the family of his brain death when they noticed him fighting the vent (trying to breathe on his own). 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲. 𝐇𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞.
If he hadn't signed his donor card he'd have died there in the hospital.
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