The UAGA says that the doctor who calls "time of death" can't be the same doctor who wants the organs.
This conflict was illustrated in a recent newspaper story.
"In procuring organs from patients like Amanda, doctors have created a new class of potential organ donors who are not dead but dying. By arbitrarily drawing a line between death and life — five minutes after the heart stops — they have raised difficult ethical questions. Are they merely acknowledging death or hastening it in their zeal to save others’ lives?"
Darshak Sanghavi, "When Does Death Start," N.Y. Times, Dec. 20, 2009.
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