modern medicine has brought us tremendous power.
boundaries such as death, heart stoppage and ownership of organs have guided our moral thinking because they seem fixed in nature. but self-interest and self-serving motives make the difference. from heart and lung function to total brain death we argue medically and unceasingly what is to be done.
"i believe in organ donation because i believe in the gift of life and i think the job of providing organs falls to each one of us". so does the job of deciding when we can rightly take them.
rightly, mr. saletan.
they are not always technical decisions. they are always ethical, too.
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