Organ donation saves lives. But it's ethically complex.
have been made to transplant genetically modified pig organs into humans, the practice is not yet widespread nor are outcomes magnificent. To save human lives, then, we need human organs.says we cannot kill people for their organs, donors must be dead. So how do we know when someone is dead enough that we can take their organs?Since the beginning of time, all human beings have recognized that when the heart stops irreversibly—known as cardiac death—a person is dead.
, removing life-sustaining technology is not considered the same act as killing a person. Sometimes we remove life support and patients don’t die. We don’t then kill those patients, because our intent is only to remove impediments to a natural death and allow nature to take its course. In contrast to DCD, in which life support is removed in the operating room and the heart is allowed to stop, now surgeons could remove organs directly from the brain-dead body, while it is still connected to machines. The logic was simple: if the body is already dead, there is no reason to remove the machines. Life support technology ensures that all the organs continue to receive good blood flow and thus are as optimized as possible.
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