When you pass away, do the doctors take out your organs?
927116
If you're an organ-donor, a harvesting team removes those organs you have chosen to donate.  This requires doctors.  If a post-mortem autopsy is deemed necessary, than a pathologist (a doctor) removes some organs for weighing and inspection.  If you die and no harvesting or autopsy is performed, then no -- doctors don't take out your organs.  A mortician will.
671043
go sell a part of your many organs
777149
till death do you part with it
1172002
Ask the undertakers/funeral managers...they should know.
790138
I'm a Registered Nurse, so I've dealt with quite a lot of dead people and their families. Once the doctor declares that a patient is dead, we proceed to remove all medical equipment that's been used to treat the now deceased. This includes IV lines, oxygen masks, Foley catheters, nasogastric or gastrotomy tubes, Penrose drainages, heparin ports, endotracheal tubes, etc. Then the body is disrobed of all clothing it might be wearing, and given a quick sponge bath. Hands are placed on top of the abdomen and tied together; legs are also bound together at the ankles. A long strip of fabric is placed under the jaw and its ends tied in a knot at the top of the head. This is done to prevent the body from being in an awkward position once rigor mortis sets in. ID tags with the deceased's full name, date and time of death are tied to the big toe, and to one of the wrists. The body is then wrapped into a large plastic sheath and another ID tag is taped firmly to the outside of the bundle. It is then placed in the hospital's morgue to await being picked up by the funeral home that the next-of-kin chooses.
949747
I would guess No...\n\nThis is because once your dead, your tissues, muscles, nerves , and organs aren't functioning.\n\nThis could be true if it were a couple seconds after his death... because it would be closely remniscent to a story where someones head got chopped off, andd he could see his own body from the ground. And that is a true stroy since your nerves in your head continue to funmction for a couple of seconds more...\n\n~LG23~
1064234
I just want to say to all the people who said they wouldn't until they were dead......you only NEED one kidney....i know a perfectly healthy 60 year old man who donated one kidney to his mom YEARS ago......For all of you 'donor's maybe you should ask yourself WHY you are donating?  \nAnd one more note....a doctor will never remove a DEAD person's organ, therefore you will be alive when they harvest your organs. All that needs to occur is your signature (saying your a donor), and a medical examiner saying that you will not recover to be a normal person again.
259669
I opted to have legal paperwork drawn up in order to have my\nbody donated for complete organ/tissue harvesting. In accordance to the Catholic Church, as long as the remains \nare handled with respect, it is permissable to do such, even\nto be disposed in a biohazard bag and incinerated at the end. (not to be observed in any form of religious service)\nWhy be buried in a forest? \nIn thinking what would be the most generous thing that I could do at the end of my life...total body donation was the\nonly logical choice as opposed to just selecting certain organs only to be removed. My soul will be long gone-It makes me happy to think that this body of mine will be put\nto such a sacred use for so many people.
132001
Assuming you're talking about a human being; but should be applicable to all animals containing such organs:\n\nFor existence in general; the heart, as the body can 'live' without a functioning brain or liver for a while.\n\nThen the liver, since eventually the body would poison itself.\n\nThen the brain.\n\nHowever, if you're talking about complete 'removal', you need to define the brain. Are you speaking of the cerebral cortex alone or the whole thing? In the latter case, the heart and brain are equivelent since the lower brain stem controls heart rate (as well as other vital; functions,) and without either, neither would function and the body would die within minutes.
169858
cutting off blood supply to the organ and it starts deterirating
597916
Yes, you can. My mother smoked most of her life and died of heart disease. They could use her skin and eyes and some bone, and I donated them. She was older, so most of the other organs weren't good for donation.
449640
when you die...or about 1 month after you die....or when they run out of cash, whichever comes first.
744622
The life support is doing the job of the failing organs.  When it is switched off the body no longer has all the vital jobs being done. The geart would stop when the body became too toxic (in laymans terms!).\nThere are strict guidelines about support being discontinued, several tests have to be done before the doctors can do it..;
978815
My religion has an idea about what happens after death, but it's a little different from others.\nWhen I die, the components of my body are supposed to go back into nature via the natural processes. I am not supposed to be cremated or embalmed or sealed into an impermeable casket. I am to be buried in dirt in the simplest possible wooden box, so that the earth can re-claim the material that has made up my formerly-living body.\nI will not remain aware of myself as a human. I may experience some molecular "memory" as I am assimilated into various other organisms.\nIf I leave a child behind when I go, my genetic material continues to live. If I leave recorded art or literature, a part of my mind continues to live. If someone loves me while I'm alive and remembers me fodly after I die, then a part of my emotion survives.\nThat's about it. I don't need more than that.
243346
Then you go to your doctor.
361540
I think I'd crap mine a second or two before, at the realization. But yes, all muscles relax(releasing urine and crap) and then shortly thereafter fluids from your organs begin to seep out your pores underneath you, however you are laying. I used to bag bodies and escort them to the morgue.\nQuite messy actually.
489826
Uhm, if you are dead and donating your organs, you arent around to get any grant money anyway...