Colleen Burns had passed away due to the drug overdose she took at home and was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital Health Centre in Syracuse, her family agreed to turn off her life support machine and donate her organs.
The process was concluded and she was wheeled into the operating theatre, this was when her eyes opened in response to the lights that doctors called off the procedure.
Burns mum, Lucille Kuss, said that they didn’t understand
"They were just kind of shocked themselves," she said. "It came as a surprise to them as well." She was discharged later but ended up committing suicide less than two years after that incident
"She was so depressed that it really didn't make any difference to her," said her mother.
"These sorts of things do happen," said Lisa McGiffert, director of Consumers Union Safe Patient Project. "It's pretty disturbing."
"Dead people don't curl their toes," said Dr Charles Wetli, a forensic pathologist from New Jersey. "And they don't fight against the respirator and want to breathe on their own."
"If you have to sedate them or give them pain medication, they're not brain-dead and you shouldn't be harvesting their organs," said Dr David Mayer, a surgeon and an associate professor of clinical surgery at New York Medical College.
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