The bioethical and transplant communities continually agitate to increase the number of donated organs by loosening standards of declaring death. Now Nature has added its hefty editorial voice to the call, even claiming that doctors today cut corners and falsely declare brain death.
If that is true, the answer to this is to rein in bad practices, not loosen the definitions! More over at Secondhand Smoke .
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