[split] IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?-NDE Discussion

[Angrboda]

Somehow, I doubt any surgeon would operate on a brain dead patient.
Waste of hospital resources...

Not if they purposefully induced brain death in order to operate on said brain.

Death is an irreversible, biologic event that consists of permanent cessation of the critical functions of the organism as a whole [1]. This concept allows for survival of tissues in isolation, but it requires the loss of integrated function of various organ systems. Death of the brain therefore qualifies as death, as the brain is essential for integrating critical functions of the body. The equivalence of brain death with death is largely, although not universally, accepted [2].

Brain death implies the permanent absence of cerebral and brainstem functions.

Diagnosis of brain death (G Bryan Young, MD, FRCPC; Professor of Neurology, University of Western Ontario, Canada)  [emphasis mine]

Brain death is defined as an “Irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brainstem”.

Open Anesthesia || Brain Death: Definition

brain death
/ˈbrān ˌdeTH/
noun
noun: brain death

irreversible brain damage causing the end of independent respiration, regarded as indicative of death.

brain death noun
Definition of brain death

: final cessation of activity in the central nervous system especially as indicated by a flat electroencephalogram for a predetermined length of time