<p>I wanted to let you know that I liked and thought especially thorough your lecture on brain death.&nbsp; Six months ago it wouldn't have sparked any interest in me.</p> <p>However, in early August my younger brother went into the hospital to have an operation on his knee replacement that he had done in November.&nbsp; Well he came out of the operating room, had a cardiac arrest, they worked on him for 45 minutes (and this was way beyond what they needed to do).&nbsp; They put him in a coma to see if he would get better but he didn't.&nbsp; The doctor asked my sister what would he want to do and he to her to not keep him hooked up to ventilators.&nbsp;&nbsp; He died about four hours later in a quiet room out of the ICU.&nbsp; And he waited for my sister to leave to go so he could pass.&nbsp; Which is ironic is my dad did the same thing.&nbsp; I went in to check in on him at around midnight and didn't hear anaything (his breathing was loud and labored) so I knew he was gone.&nbsp; And he wanted all of us to go to bed and we did.&nbsp; Both my brother and my dad were great men who thought a lot about their family.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>