Dr. Lydia Dugdale, director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University, published an article in The Free Press entitled, “The Doctors Trying to Redefine Death.” In the article,
Dr. Dugdale documents the efforts of some physicians to expand our definition of “death” to include not simply heart stoppage or brain stoppage, but what these physicians term “irreversibly
comatose patients on life support.”
Dr. Dugdale warns that expanding the definition of death has consequences for every person alive, because it broadens the pool of possible organ donors and raising the terrible possibility that some of these donors may in fact be alive, according to the definition humanity has used for millennia.
The full article is available here.
