kanzz
kanzz=kansas
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I'm sorry, but Spitz is incorrect. She was not immediately "brain dead". She couldn't have been. If she had been, she would not have been able to breathe, so her heart couldn't have continued to beat, and therefore she would not have had any kind of a bleed in her head.If the bladder is full then it takes muscle control to stop urination. This is not just a faint, it's coupled with a serious brain injury, and I think incontinence is likely to occur. Spitz even said she was brain dead.
By medical definition, to be brain dead means that you are basically dead in the absence of any machines to support life. "Brain dead" is legally dead - it's the complete and total absence of brain activity, which would mean there's nothing to make the lungs breathe or the heart beat. We do not consciously control our bladders. If if we are unconscious, there might or might not be incontinence.