DCD (Donation after Cardiac Death): Organ-donor unease

"Denver and the west - Patients partly brain-dead are growing source. While some ethicists say the option blurs the line between near-death and death, the demand is there.

Organ donations from partially brain-dead patients - a controversial source - jumped tenfold in Colorado and Wyoming last year, the group that coordinates donations said."

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Source:
DenverPost.com
Article by Karen Augé