If you had the means and a very dedicated volunteer, is it possible to harvest ALL organs that can be used for transplants?
Seems to me the best way would be a general anesthetic and then removing each organ from last to most vital, but that’s… well, chopping up a live person. What can killl a person and leave their organs usable?
Suffocation combined with a fast moving team of surgeons should work. Everyone stops breathing at death anyway so this just cuts out any other complicating factors.
Easy. Put person under general anesthesia, remove brain lobes, pronounce him/her brain-dead and proceed with harvesting organs.
No need for suffocating.
I remember hearing about this sort of thing in connection with, not volunteers, but executed criminals. The analysis I remember didn’t really have a happy medium - it broke down the current methods of execution applied in the USA, pointing out how most of them ruined the important organs so that they would be of no use in transplants, (cooked in the electric chair, poisoned with injections or the gas chamber, ripped to pieces from a firing squad.) and then went to the other extreme, pointing out the hippocratic oath issues involved in essentially killing someone by organ removal.
Shagnasty’s solution seems like a reasonable middle ground
ETA: puppygod, your suggestion does seem to have some hippocratic problems though. 
Exsanguination.
That would do it. (The word means “bleeding out”; kinda like what that guy behind Sarah Palin was doing to those turkeys).
I was going to suggest some sort of irreversible brain damage, that being the primary presenting symptom of many successful organ donors. I think the preferred donor was (and perhaps still is) someone who has been in a traffic accident, had his brain squished, but was otherwise intact. Often such a person could be declared brain dead some hours or days before the rest of his organs took up knitting, giving plenty of time to crossmatch donor/donees, assemble the harvest crew, and convince the next-of-kin to sign the paperwork.
Of course, should you decide to induce brain death in your volunteer by violent means, you need to take care. The corneas are usable so you shouldn’t jar them enough to tear them up. And just a couple of weeks back I saw something in the paper about the world’s first face transplant. So try not to mess up the face.
I suppose you could use the Jeffrey Dahmer Method if you have a power drill handy. :eek:
I can’t believe I’m saying this. This is all hypothetical, right??
I thought lethal injection didn’t make any of the organs unusable? Just flush them out with a shit-ton of saline, and all the potassium chloride is gone, right?
That seems iffy. I’m no medical professional, but actually flushing out all the tissues without damaging them sounds like a tall order, once the body’s normal circulation stops. chrisk mentioned remembering an analysis describing why lethal injection made organs unsuitable for transplants; I’d be interested to read that if anybody can find it.
Oh, and I have to say this is one of those threads that would be much more interesting with “(Need answer fast!!!)” in the title. 
No, there isn’t any way to do this safely. Unless you are for some reason discounting the safety of the volunteer in question…