© OrganFacts.net

… The truth behind organ donation & organ transplants

WAS
NOT
DEAD

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]

WAS
NOT
DEAD

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]

WAS
NOT
DEAD

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]

WAS
NOT
DEAD

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]

WAS
NOT
DEAD

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]

WAS
NOT
DEAD

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]

WAS
NOT
DEAD

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]

WAS
NOT
DEAD

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]

WAS
NOT
DEAD

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

Back Stop Forward

Was Not Dead!

Michele De Leeuw

Heart attack patient declared “Brain dead” … and then she recovers when taken off life support.

57 year old Michele De Leeuw of Michigan suffered a sudden heart attack and stopped breathing in August 2018. It was 15 minutes before paramedics could arrive at her home and resuscitate her.

Doctors believe that the brain starts to “die” after only 6 minutes without breathing, so there seemed to be little hope of recovery, when Michele was taken to St Johns Macomb Hospital in XXX. Doctors decided that Michele had suffered “irreversible brain damage” and was probably “brain dead”.

When my father called me … he felt that she was dead.

Her husband Karl was informed of all this and decided to phone their children to come to the hospital, for what might be their final goodbyes. NBC reports that their daughter said: “When my father called me after she was rushed to the hospital … he felt that she was dead”.

The family waited for a few days to see if there was any improvement in Michele’s condition, but nothing changed. The doctors also felt that there was no hope of recovery. After 3 weeks, the doctors told Karl: “the woman that you know as your wife is not there anymore,”, so he decided to unplug the ventilator. (Quote from Dearly.com, article cited below.)

Minutes later, Michele showed signs of recovery and actually started to breathe on her own. This was considered “impossible” by the doctors, and they still thought that she would die. Michele was moved to a hospice to live out her final hours or days.

within a week, she was sitting up, talking and feeding herself.

But she kept on improving and, within a week, she was sitting up, talking and feeding herself. She underwent heart surgery, and weeks of speech therapy and physiotherapy. After four months, Michele was back home with her family and had nearly fully recovered.

This is another example of the imprecise and unreliable character of so-called “brain death”. In reality, it is not true death. Patients and their families would be well advised to never abandon your loved one to the so-called “doctors” or organ harvesters, when they diagnose supposed “brain death”.

SAVE YOU LIFE. SAY “NO” TO ORGAN DONATION AND ORGAN HARVESTING!

Sources:

Sources:
“Mother-of-two who was left brain-dead by shock heart attack wakes up moments after she was pulled from life support ‐ and four months later she’s fighting fit” by Natalie Rahhal, Deputy Health Editor for DAILYMAIL.COM, viewed online 8 April 2019 at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6465309/Mother-two-thought-brain-dead-wakes-just-life-support-pulled.html

“Husband Makes Agonizing Decision to Remove Wife’s Life Support. Days Later, She Wakes Up and Asks for Food” by Prudence Hill for Dearly.com, viewed online 9 April 2019 at: https://dearly.com/husband-makes-agonizing-decision-to-remove-wifes-life-support-days-later-she-wakes-up-and-asks-for-food/

“Doctors Said Woman Was Brain Dead and Removed Her Life Support. Now She’s Almost Totally Recovered” by Steven Ertelt for LifeNews, viewed online 9 April 2019 at: https://www.lifenews.com/2018/12/06/doctors-said-woman-was-brain-dead-and-removed-her-life-support-now-shes-almost-totally-recovered/