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As required by law, we alerted the regional organ procurement organization. When its representative arrived, she informed the family that, because the patient had registered years ago while obtaining a driver’s license, the organization was authorized to begin preparations for transplant. This meant the patient had to remain on life support for more hours or days while the procurement organization identified potential recipients, assembled the donation surgical team and coordinated timing, transportation and other factors; they also would monitor the patient and request other treatments if necessary to keep the organs viable.
The distraught family explained that the patient likely registered inadvertently, that English was a second language, that donating in this way conflicted with the patient’s religious beliefs and that the patient would not have wanted to be kept nominally alive without hope of recovery while their children sobbed at the bedside. The decision to withdraw life support was hard enough, the family pleaded. They asked to be left to grieve.
But the representative said she was merely notifying them — not asking permission. She said the organization had the right to procure the patient’s organs and to continue life support in the meantime, regardless of family objection. Now understandably irate, the family reversed their decision to withdraw life support. If heroic measures were going to continue, they said, they should be used to save the patient’s life, not someone else’s. Our patient died within a day despite aggressive intervention — leaving the family traumatized, the organs unusable and our care team shattered.”
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An ICU nurse explains why she's taken her name off the organ donation registry. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/22/organ-donation-laws-consent/
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