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Off With Their Heads

Off With Their Heads
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Use organs from donors who die cardiac death?
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YES
It is an effective and acceptable way to get more donors
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This is a risky and medically unsound plan
 
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This procedure can help the more than 80,000 people who are awaiting transplants and the 6,000 that stand to die while waiting. These organs work just as well as those that come from donors who are declared brain dead and can be done in an ethical manner.

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Most organ donors die because their brain, not their heart, stops functioning and a ventilator is used to keep the heart beating until the organ is transplanted. With the question of when death is really death casting uncertainty, this is unethical.

 

 



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