I recently stumbled across a YouTube video of the "honor walk" in an American hospital.
When someone is technically dead ( presumably brain stem dead), and are also organ donor willing, they will be kept "alive" ( heart beating, respiration etc mechanically performed).
Then when the organ recipient is ready, the "dead" patient is wheeled along in their hospital bed to the operating theatre, and the staff all line the corridor to "honor" the donor.
I find this unsettling and slightly macabre. I know the donor is actually already dead, in most senses of the word but seeing them wheeled along to be 'switched off' and harvested is upsetting.
Certainly organ donors should be praised for the selflessness of the donation, but it feels wrong somehow -take this person into an operating theatre and effectively terminate their life, while dozens of hospital staff look on.
