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Donor Organs Are Too Rare. We Need a New Definition of Death.
The New York Times ^ | July 30, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET | Sandeep Jauhar, Snehal Patel and Deane Smith

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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1 posted on 07/31/2025 6:04:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How about poor and disadvantaged white person?


2 posted on 07/31/2025 6:06:34 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My mom is half French. Her mother and father are French, but she lost her legs in a car accident.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Chilling


3 posted on 07/31/2025 6:06:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Anyone who would take employment with the NYT is obviously brain dead.

Sandeep Jauhar, Snehal Patel and Deane Smith should all be processed for organ donation.

4 posted on 07/31/2025 6:06:51 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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.


5 posted on 07/31/2025 6:07:58 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

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??


6 posted on 07/31/2025 6:08:17 PM PDT by God luvs America
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Now these monsters want to redefine death.

Debasing the sexes wasn’t enough.

L


7 posted on 07/31/2025 6:08:27 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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Sandeep Jauhar, Snehal Patel and Deane Smith should all be processed for organ donation.

Yes, based on the article they would qualify right now.

8 posted on 07/31/2025 6:08:55 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo ( )
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To: God luvs America

How else are you going to pay the hospital bill?


9 posted on 07/31/2025 6:10:40 PM PDT by Jonty30 (My mom is half French. Her mother and father are French, but she lost her legs in a car accident.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

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.


10 posted on 07/31/2025 6:10:49 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m Xi Jinping, and I approve this message.


11 posted on 07/31/2025 6:10:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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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.


12 posted on 07/31/2025 6:12:14 PM PDT by Petrosius
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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...


13 posted on 07/31/2025 6:12:41 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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Yeah....Who gets to write the new definition of Death?


14 posted on 07/31/2025 6:12:51 PM PDT by SisterK (to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly)
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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.


15 posted on 07/31/2025 6:15:43 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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The chiComs sell organs, so maybe we could do this and help lower the countries debt...


16 posted on 07/31/2025 6:16:19 PM PDT by God luvs America
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“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.


17 posted on 07/31/2025 6:16:50 PM PDT by brookwood (America Was Built By MS-13. We Are A Nation Of MS-13.)
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We need to broaden the definition of death.

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.

18 posted on 07/31/2025 6:17:17 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Prepare to be treated like a farm animal for slaughter.


19 posted on 07/31/2025 6:22:18 PM PDT by Noumenon (You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality. KTF)
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Sandeep Jauhar, Snehal Patel and Deane Smith

Makes you wonder which one has the name Mengele in the family tree.

20 posted on 07/31/2025 6:23:33 PM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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