moish01,
I’m sorry if you found my question intrusive. I was just curious about the procedure. From what I’ve seen as soon as a patient is diagnosed as brain dead, the hospital will generally try to remove life support, or failing that, moving him out of the ICU, to a nursing home or similar facility. I’ve also heard of hospitals conducting apnea testing (which requires taking the patient off the ventilator for a brief time) and then “forgetting” to put the patient back on the vent (although in this case a family member “reminded” them to turn the vent back on).