eli5: If someone dies in a hospital, why can’t we just give them organs and blood ASAP?
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Human bodies are not just blood and organs. There are so many biological systems in the body that we still have not discovered them all.
Organ donation is incredibly slow and complicated even with months of notice.
The brain is the most delicate and vital organ. Irreversible brain damage begins only minutes after the heart stops.
Impossible with current medicine, but theoretically a *brain* could be transplanted into another body, thus “saving” the person at least mentally.
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