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Carina Melchior , a 19 year old student, suffered severe injuries after crashing her car. Doctors said she would soon be “brain dead” and convinced her family to consent to organ donation. But, as doctors gathered around her bed to prep her for organ donation, she suddenly opened her eyes and moved her legs. Now she is making a full recovery. [more]

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Steven Thorpe , 17 year old Warwickshire youth, was declared “brain dead” by four doctors, but his parents did not give up on him, and insisted on another opinion from an independent GP and a neurosurgeon. Steven made an unexpected recovery and left hospital alive seven weeks later. [more]

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Zach Dunlap , a 21 year old Oklahoma man, was “feeling pretty good” four months after he was diagnosed as “brain dead”. Ironically, Zach heard the doctors pronounce him dead, but was unable to do anything about it. A few days later, he revived and spoke to his family. [more]

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Sam Schmid , a 21 year old Arizona college student, was critically wounded in a five-car accident. Surgeons thought he had no hope of recovery and broached organ donation with his family. Sam was poised to ‘donate’ his vital organs, when he suddenly emerged from a coma. He has since had rehabilitation and walks with the aid of a walker. [more]

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Val Thomas , 59 year old West Virginia woman, came back to life, after being clinically “brain dead” for 17 hours. Attempts to revive her after a heart attack had failed, and doctors diagnosed her as “brain dead”. Later “she moved her arm, coughed and asked for her son.” ... she was alive. [more]

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Gloria Cruz , 56 year old Northern Territory woman, was declared “brain dead” and expected to ‘die’ within 48 hours. A doctor, a social worker and a ‘patient advocate’ urged her husband to remove the ventilator and let her ‘die’. But he refused and 3 days later, Gloria revived, awoke from her coma and was getting around hospital in a wheelchair. [more]

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Madeleine Gauron , a 76 year old Quebec woman, was diagnosed by medical staff as “brain dead”, with no hope of recovery. Doctors asked if the family would agree to organ donation, but the family asked for more medical tests. The next day, astonishingly, she awakened and sat up in bed and ate yogurt. [more]

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Rae Kupferschmidt , 65 year old Minnesota woman, suffered a massive cerebral haemorrhage and doctors diagnosed her as “brain dead”. She was taken home to die and her family began making funeral arrangements. When Rae spontaneously sucked an ice cube offered by her daughter, she was found to be alive. She later walked. [more]

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Suzanne Chin suffered cardiac arrest and collapsed into unconsciousness. Taken to hospital, she remained in a coma and the head of ICU, two neurologists & a cardiologist said she was brain-dead with no hope of recovery. But her husband refused to turn of her life support. 3 days later, Suzanne revived & is now well & very much ALIVE. [more]

The Nasty Side of Organ Transplanting

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George Pickering III

Desperate dad saves son after doctors declare young man “brain dead”.

A 27 year old man suffered a massive stroke in January 2015 and was admitted to a local Houston TX hospital where he was put on life support. It wasn’t long before doctors said that there is “no hope” of recovery and declared George Pickering III ”brain dead”.

George’s mother and a brother were satisfied with the diagnosis by Tomball Regional Medical Center, and they agreed to doctor’s plans for a “terminal wean”, which would gradually remove life support from the supposedly ”brain dead” patient. Furthermore, George was a registered “organ donor”, so doctors likely wanted to harvest his organs.

“I felt hopeless. They were moving too fast. The hospital, the nurses, the doctors.”

But the young man’s desperate father, George Snr, 59, would have none of it. He felt certain that his son was not really “dead”, and realised that he needed to take action. Armed with a gun, he entered his son’s hospital room and demanded that everyone leave the room, before they could remove the life support. “I felt hopeless. They were moving too fast. The hospital, the nurses, the doctors” the dad later said.

A struggle ensued followed by a three hour siege in the hospital, but eventually George Snr surrendered and police moved in to arrest him. He later said:

During that three hours, George squeezed my hand three or four times on command… I knew my son was not brain dead… I’m his father. I would’ve felt something.

That same night, the young man George Pickering III woke up! He greeted his family members. He later said:“There was a law broken, but it was broken for all the right reasons. I’m here now because of it. It was love, it was love.… It’s the duty of a parent to protect your children & that’s all he did.”

“It’s the duty of a parent to protect your children & that’s all he did.”

The young man has now full recovered and went home to his family, grateful to be alive and thankful for his father’s determination to save him from the organ harvesters.

Life Site News reports that an increasing number of experts have begun calling into question the “brain death” criteria for determining death. They argue that “brain death” is an arbitrary set of criteria developed largely to ensure the usability of organs harvested from such patients, as well as to decrease the medical costs involved in keeping “brain dead” patients alive on life support.

(From “Texas dad released from jail after armed standoff at hospital to save son, who made miraculous recovery after being near death” by David Boroff & Laurie Hanna at NY Daily News. Viewed Jan 30, 2019 at https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/texas-man-released-jail-siege-save-son-life-article-1.2474678 )

(plus “Doctors Tried to Take This Texas Dad’s Son Off Life Support — He Went to Jail to Save His Life” by Carly Hoilman at Faithwire.com. Viewed Jan 30, 2019 at https://www.faithwire.com/2018/05/03/doctors-tried-to-take-this-texas-dads-son-off-life-support-he-went-to-jail-to-save-his-life/ )

(plus “‘It’s the only reason I’m here now’: Son awakens from ‘brain-dead’ state …” by Evan Bleier for DailyMail.com. Viewed Jan 30, 2019 at https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3371236/George-Pickering-II-standoff-Tomball-Regional-Medical-Center-Houston-brain-dead-son.html )

Other article links:
Hong Kong lawyer declared “brain dead” recovers spontaneously three days later.
“Brain dead” Northern Territory woman recovers after husband refuses to withdraw life support.
Oklahoma man was “feeling pretty good” four months after he was diagnosed as “brain dead”.