Definition: The act of voluntarily revoking consent for a life-saving transplant (like bone marrow) at the absolute last possible moment. While legally permissible, it reveals a bone-chilling apathy toward the recipient’s now-certain fate, making you look like a moral void in scrubs. Technically within your rights, universally within the void.
Example: After years of silence, the estranged brother agreed to donate marrow, only to walk out of pre-op citing a sudden ‘change of heart’ while the recipient was already prepped.
The anonymous donor, screened and ready, revoked consent via a cold phone call minutes before the harvesting procedure was scheduled to begin.