31. IP posted lengthy opinions and continued to refer to " irreversible " brain death . 32. Family members will also be able to overrule a doctor's diagnosis of brain death . 33. It makes the heart beat irregularly, followed by brain death . 34. The Harvard criteria gradually gained consensus toward what is now known as brain death . 35. Organs can be removed after brain death is declared. 36. In the absence of brain death , no one would think of switching off the respirator. 37. Even where there is no strong bias against brain death , people seem ambivalent about it. 38. Asked about reports of brain death , Barnier replied : " I wouldn't say that ." 39. Although the new law allows doctors to declare brain death , families can veto the diagnosis. 40. Where patients have seemingly come back to life, the brain death diagnosis was always wrong.