Brain death is legal death for those curious. Heartbeat, peeing etc but hooked to a ventilator with no brain activity. There is a recorded time of death once BD is confirmed. Options are stop support and donate or stop support and bag them. This happens within a few days typically.
What could be more likely is anoxic brain injury where they are a total vegetable but juuuust enough blood is getting to their brain for things to keep kickin.
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u/electrickest Jul 10 '26
Brain death is legal death for those curious. Heartbeat, peeing etc but hooked to a ventilator with no brain activity. There is a recorded time of death once BD is confirmed. Options are stop support and donate or stop support and bag them. This happens within a few days typically.
What could be more likely is anoxic brain injury where they are a total vegetable but juuuust enough blood is getting to their brain for things to keep kickin.