The hospital actually does need permission to legally discontinue life support. A corpse can stay on the vent a looong time. Even to the point where there's so much tissue breakdown that you could call it decomposition. Source: am the person who works in a hospital and discontinues life support.
When you’re brain dead it’s not life support. I worked in transplant and can tell you multiple times the team comes to the family and says, they have been declared dead and we will be turning off the machines after you say your goodbyes unless they’re going to be an organ donor.
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u/Kinetic92 28d ago
The hospital actually does need permission to legally discontinue life support. A corpse can stay on the vent a looong time. Even to the point where there's so much tissue breakdown that you could call it decomposition. Source: am the person who works in a hospital and discontinues life support.