PHI 2396 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Brain Death, Permadeath, Clinical Death
17 Apr 2017
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Chapter 17-definition & criteria of death: it seems to be black and white easy to define, but it is grey hard to define. Dcd-donation after cardiac death: it is very precious donations for numerous patients out there. But the problem arises that it is hard to define the point of the death and hard to know when it is right to take dcd. Ideally, organ harvesting would take place before death for the highest quality organs (fresh & oxygenated) But in practice, it takes place within around 5min - 30mins after cardiac death (distinguishing death is very cloudy) Organ viability is time-sensitive & some organ-transplant doctors have been viewed as greedy killers who can"t wait to retrieve organs, or even encouraging death by suggesting opiates (killing analgesic drug)/blood thinners to still live patients. **the ethical concern arises from the permission of letting die vs intentional encouragement of death to save another person"s life.
