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Re:Katie's New Face by ars on Thursday August 16, 2018 @01:18AM (#17772105)
The problem people have with organ donation is that it requires the donor to still be alive, but without brain activity, when they donate.

So it boils down to what do you consider death?

Re:Katie's New Face by titusjohnson on Thursday August 16, 2018 @04:47PM (#17778276)
Do you have any links regarding the need to be alive? My impression is this is only true for some transplant types.
Re:Katie's New Face by ars on Friday August 17, 2018 @03:11PM (#17785040)
Google: "organ donation cardiac death".

> My impression is this is only true for some transplant types.

Other way around. Organ donation after cardiac death is only possible for certain types, and only in very limited circumstances.

Hopefully things will improve because it would vastly increase the number of possible donations. The vast majority of people can not donate organs even if they want to - it requires a very specific type of death (brain death where the body is just fine).

Many people also have religious and ethical problems with it because you are killing someone. Obviously that depends on how they define death, which has no commonly accepted definition, the current definition "brain death" was set that way to make organ donation possible, and that makes many people uneasy.