"Harvesting"
-has always had a different meaning to me.
--Growing up - referred to farmers bringing in crops from the fields.
--High School and such, taking an International Scout and going 4 wheeling for fun.
--When in the Main OR of a hospital. When a person died, We Harvested the organs, bones skin, eyes...
Organ donors, bone grafts, eyes...this is how one obtains them.
We usually started about midnight, when things settled from regular cases and emergencies. A "full" harvest, may have teams from all over the country flying in and say taking only the eyes, another team may only need the heart, and fly west where the recipient was waiting. We had our own needs, walk a Playmate cooler two OR suites down with a Liver. Then shake the ladies hand 2 weeks later, that rec'd it.
We were respectful, nonetheless we called it what it was. The Organs, were referred to by their proper names.
Reality is what it is. One thing to speak to a child's level scared, another to put in layman's terms a procedure - the bottom line is always the bottom line.
Take a "less informed , denying" individual *ahem*. Reality sets in when the heart they are getting is in fact from someone who died. Tends to shake some misconceptions.