Permitting organ donation: brain death criterion as the "point of no return" in the process of dying


Abstract

After considering authors who criticize the brain death criterion (Singer, Defanti and Shewmon), we will conclude that brain death criterion cannot be considered the death of human beings: this does not lead to ban organ transplants. On the contrary, brain death as the "point of no return" in the process of death should ethically considered as the requirement for performing transplants.