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What is Death and Why Do We Insist on the Dead Donor Rule? A Response to Our Critics

What is Death and Why Do We Insist on the Dead Donor Rule? A Response to Our Critics THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2201205 CORRESPONDENCE What is Death and Why Do We Insist on the Dead Donor Rule? A Response to Our Critics Emil J. Busch and Marius T. Mjaaland University of Oslo Faculty of Theology What is death: a process or a specific declaration? Is it we have noticed that a number of scholars are con- a biological continuum of events or a decision based cerned that we will open up the Pandora’s Box of har- vesting any organ from living donors as long as it on medical, ethical, and legal criteria? In our view, it is both, and there are philosophical and theological, does not cause death (Clarke 2023; Johnson 2023; but also very pragmatic reasons why the problem of Menikoff 2023; Schiff and Parent 2023). We can death puts our ethical concerns to the test. The proce- assure our critics: That is by no means our intention. dures of organ donation, either following brain death In the article, we do not discuss the case of donation or after circulatory arrest, reveal a critical need to dis- from living donors, which requires other principles cuss, to define and sometimes even to jeopardize our for protection, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Bioethics Taylor & Francis

What is Death and Why Do We Insist on the Dead Donor Rule? A Response to Our Critics

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THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS https://doi.org/10.1080/15265161.2023.2201205 CORRESPONDENCE What is Death and Why Do We Insist on the Dead Donor Rule? A Response to Our Critics Emil J. Busch and Marius T. Mjaaland University of Oslo Faculty of Theology What is death: a process or a specific declaration? Is it we have noticed that a number of scholars are con- a biological continuum of events or a decision based cerned that we will open up the Pandora’s Box of har- vesting any organ from living donors as long as it on medical, ethical, and legal criteria? In our view, it is both, and there are philosophical and theological, does not cause death (Clarke 2023; Johnson 2023; but also very pragmatic reasons why the problem of Menikoff 2023; Schiff and Parent 2023). We can death puts our ethical concerns to the test. The proce- assure our critics: That is by no means our intention. dures of organ donation, either following brain death In the article, we do not discuss the case of donation or after circulatory arrest, reveal a critical need to dis- from living donors, which requires other principles cuss, to define and sometimes even to jeopardize our for protection,

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The American Journal of BioethicsTaylor & Francis

Published: Apr 2, 2024

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