>I don't quite see the logic here. What does the medial professional gain from letting you die to try save someone else? Cost benefit analysis to save the most

>I don't quite see the logic here. What does the medial professional gain from letting you die to try save someone else? Cost benefit analysis to save the most people. "He is already pretty much dead. We could keep trying and maybe damage the organs, or go ahead and call time of death and get these organs to save 3 other people." For me, the bigger issue is that of the 'beating heart donor' where your organs are harvested while you are brain dead but your body is still alive. I don't trust our understanding of brain death enough to say that pain isn't felt (consider the rare cases of people who are anesthetized enough they appear unconscious to the instrumentation but are able to recall parts of the operation including sometimes feeling pain).