Some organ donors in America are not truly brain dead when the organ procurement process begins, says Dr. Joseph Varon, co-founder of the Independent Medical Alliance. “I have seen multiple occasions where a person supposedly was brain dead. If you are brain dead, you don't need any permission from anybody to disconnect somebody from a machine…but there are specific criteria as to what constitutes a patient that is brain dead. So a brain dead person, for example, would not have any feeling. When