Posted on 07/31/2025 6:04:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
People die in many ways, but in medicine there are only two reasons a person can be declared dead: Either the heart has stopped or the brain has ceased to function, even if the heart is still beating.
A person may serve as an organ donor only after being declared dead. (Until then, transplant surgeons are not allowed even to interact with a dying patient.) This common-sensical rule underpins organ donation in the United States and many other countries.
Most donor organs today are obtained after brain death, defined by most state laws as a condition of permanent unconsciousness with no spontaneous breathing, no response to pain and no primitive reflexes — in other words, devastation of the whole brain. Organs obtained this way are often relatively healthy, because brain-dead patients can continue to circulate blood and oxygen.
Brain death is rare, though. In New York State, with a population of 20 million, there are on average fewer than 500 cases suitable for organ procurement and transplantation each year.
Far more often, people die because their heart has permanently stopped beating, which is known as circulatory death. However, precisely because the blood has stopped circulating, organs from people who die this way are often damaged and unsuited for transplantation.
The need for donor organs is urgent. An estimated 15 people die in this country every day waiting for a transplant. We need to figure out how to obtain more healthy organs from donors while maintaining strict ethical standards.
New technologies can help. But the best solution, we believe, is legal: We need to broaden the definition of death.
Consider how things currently work. In the procedure known as donation after circulatory death, a typical donor is in an irreversible coma from, say,...
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How about poor and disadvantaged white person?
Chilling
Sandeep Jauhar, Snehal Patel and Deane Smith should all be processed for organ donation.
No depth too deep, no morals too dear for the NYT.
Journalism, when you’ve failed Underwater Lesbian Dance, but still pretend to do a job.
LOL- this is comforting....when i got the new upgraded license i signed to be an organ donor- which i initially did when i got my license more than forty years ago...
Now what?? I go to the hospital for a broken ankle and they take my kidneys??
Now these monsters want to redefine death.
Debasing the sexes wasn’t enough.
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Yes, based on the article they would qualify right now.
How else are you going to pay the hospital bill?
How about,”Do you work for or read the New York Times?” If so, sign here, please. You are now a human parts platform. Thank You for your donation.
I’m Xi Jinping, and I approve this message.
In other words, we need a way to snatch organs from living patients with a pseudo definition of death. Even “brain death” is a false definition. As long as there is metabolism in the body it is alive. This may be inconvenient for those who want a transplant, but we cannot demand the death of another to keep ourselves alive.
Say doc, that guy looks healthy after running up that flight of stairs...
Here is $25,000, pronounce him dead so my husband can use his heart...
Yeah....Who gets to write the new definition of Death?
The way to expand it is to get them from live donors here as illegals committing crimes, to repay their costs to society by giving a lung, a kidney, and a liver lobe.
They’ll get the whole liver back and have to get by on one lung, while their remaining kidney grows in size to take over nearly all filtration as done, before.
The chiComs sell organs, so maybe we could do this and help lower the countries debt...
“Yeah....Who gets to write the new definition of Death?”
That would be Ezekiel Emmanuel, brother of Rahm Emmanuel. former mayor of Chicago, who came up with the idea of “death panels”, which Sarah Palin mentioned and for such mention she was ridiculed for 20 years, although she spoke the truth.
I heard this definition from my brother when he was in law school:
Legal death: the inability of an organism to initiate or sustain litigation.
Prepare to be treated like a farm animal for slaughter.
Makes you wonder which one has the name Mengele in the family tree.
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