1.   After death, a machine called a ventilator keeps the blood circulating until the organs are removed.

2.   An organ should be removed if the alternative at this time is completely unacceptable.

3.   The chosen hospital dispatches a team of doctors to remove the organ.

4.   Are organs being removed without scruples?

5.   Because of the need to remove organs immediately after death, corpses may be dissected at the execution site.

6.   Actually he had been taken with a stable pulse to a different clinic where, nine hours later, all his organs were removed.

7.   But the notion is contentious, and Matta and Young admit that administering anesthetic before removing organs may be more for the benefit of medics than donors.

8.   By law the authorities need permission from prisoners or their families before organs are removed.

9.   China has never developed clear guidelines for determining brain death, and in the rush to remove healthy organs from executed prisoners, all standards are often ignored.

10.   Doctors do not have to notify relatives of the dead, let alone ask permission, to remove the organs for transplant.