The so called `dead donor ' rule requires that vital organs be removed only from cadaveric donors . There are dilemmas here attaching to both `heart beating ' donors and , the increasingly , `non- heart beating (asystolic ) donors . The former depend upon the relatively modern notion of brain death as marking the end of life of the individual human being , the practical of which can be illustrated by comparing volumes of transplants between nations . Japan , which until recently shied away from the notion of...











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