DragonClaw
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I've seen a lot of people who shoot themselves in the head. Only one lived, and he called 911 on himself after he had shot upwards and forwards from under his chin blowing off a good portion of his face and nose. He had never coded.
If there is disruption to the brain tissue and the patient codes it isn't worth saving. I've seen some pretty traumatic open head injuries that have lived, and they are all massively debilitated. That isn't what I would want for myself, and isn't what I'd want for my family. Saving some kid (or adult for that matter) who ends up with no cognitive brain function isn't life. That is dragging a corpse through slow deconditioning and a family through emotional torture.
You're not finding arguments from me about the people who blow a hole in their head and jelly their brain.
Can't they just intubate and keep organs oxygenated and harvest really fast?Head GSWs are usually too unstable to make any donation worth much (Liver, heart, lungs, kidney, et cetera). A good anoxic insult from asphyxiation or OD, that's a different story.