The Undead: Organ Harvesting, The Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers—How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death

摘要

Doctors in most of the world can legally harvest a brain-dead patient's organs since that individual is presumably no longer alive and able to feel pain—but what if the presumption is wrong? What if a doctor mistakenly pronounces a patient brain-dead and acceptable for organ harvest when he or she is simply in a deep coma?