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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ann Neumann

When does life end? A father didn’t believe his daughter was dead. He says the hospital still harvested her organs

illustration - silhouette of woman falling, with dots of color coming away from her body

Mike O’Connor had just been told that his daughter was brain dead.

Brittany had been in the hospital for six days. One end of a thick blue tube was taped to her mouth, the other connected to a respirator, which pushed air into her lungs with a mechanical force that shook her chest up and down.

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