Wed Jan 11, 2023 – 2:56 pm EST
(Euthanasia Prevention Coalition) — Brain death is a controversial topic. Many people have received a life-saving organ donation from a person who was declared brain dead. This article does not question organ donation but it does question whether determinations of brain death are always accurate and whether changes to brain death determinations will cause further controversy.
There have been several cases of people declared brain dead who were not brain dead.
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I am concerned that the Uniform Law Commission, which writes model laws in the U.S., are debating amendments to the Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA) which will make it easier to declare someone brain dead. Sara Buscher, a lawyer and past-chair of Euthanasia Prevention Coalition USA, stated in a recent article:
The current uniform act has been adopted in some version by all 50 states says:
‘An individual who has sustained either (1) irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions, or (2) irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead. A determination of death must be made in accordance
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