There was no question of transplanting his corneas. They were no longer there, and that was the problem: How do you know a person like that is brain dead without the all-disclosing eyes? We couldn’t examine his pupils. We couldn’t examine his eye movements or his corneal reflexes. I recall thinking, Oh my God, you don’t want to get a diagnosis of brain death wrong because it would be like committing an innocent man to the electric chair. How am I going to finesse this?
