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They tried testing his eye's but they were unresponsive, they did a brain scan, but no eeg. They sent the scans away to outside nuerosurgions as we had none here, and later we were told there was not much hope. but they also said he was not able to breath on his own, and he may possibly be able to for 15mins maybe an hour at the most. They said he could feel no pain, and removed him from the morphine. also after his last breath, his body contorted and he nearly fitted himself of the bed. He went from unmoving to almost sitting straight up and off the bed on his own. If the brain stem was all that was left and causeing this, could he still have felt pain?

My partner was completely healthy, actually extremely healthy, young (23yrs) and very fit, other than the damage done to his brain on impact they said he would have walked away from the accident. What I really want to know for my own peice of mind is that, after they diagnosed him brain dead, and removed him from life support. They took him off morphine, and he returned to pretty much normal on his own. They told me he could feel no pain. All i want to know is that he truly felt no pain. The moans and groans he kept making, the twitches, the return of his normal body temp, and the continueing of his breathing functions on their own for hours after doesn't feel like brain death to me. Can someone who knows please just let me know where I stand. He had no pace maker or any artificial body parts or helping instruments. This is continued on from my previous statement above. I couldn't bare it if he was only in a coma and could feel all the pain of his accident.

my partner was in a horrific accident, and the doctors told me he had no other injury other than that to his head. Unfortunately they told me he was brain dead and that he would die within minutes to maybe an hour of his life support being removed. However, he continued breathing for many many hours later, his temperature went back to normal, he kept moaning and groaning, his body kept twitching, and finally, we had to watch him drown in his own blood. are you telling me that he was only in a coma and that the doctor's were wrong?! Please tell me i did not watch and help the love of my life die when there was something i could have done?!