# Death and Donation

## Metadata
- Author: [[D. Scott Henderson]]
- Full Title: Death and Donation
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- Although transplant researchers debated the neurological criteria for determining death, the Harvard report of 1968 marked the first recognized diagnostic criteria for determining brain death. ([Location 178](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005HR5VVE&location=178))
- Historically, brain death emerged at the crossroads of two intersecting technological advances in medicine, i.e., artificial life-support mechanisms and organ transplantation.12 ([Location 201](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005HR5VVE&location=201))
- Despite the approval of legal scholars and practitioners, the act fell short in two important respects: 1) it addressed the concept of brain death only, but not the criteria used to conclude that death had occurred,77 and 2) it omitted the traditional cardiopulmonary criterion.78 ([Location 457](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005HR5VVE&location=457))
- Life-sustaining technologies not only expand the time to death, but also have altered, in some cases, the way in which death is now conceived. ([Location 1591](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005HR5VVE&location=1591))
- the trauma of events which occur for the sake of organ donation, added to the devastating events of the brain injury suffered by the relative, often cause family members to feel assailed or assaulted. ([Location 1690](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005HR5VVE&location=1690))
- “Our consent to the removal of one organ had been changed into a multi-organ removal without asking us. The last sight of my child burnt itself into my soul. When I think of him I have to fight the horrible impression that he was looking so undignified and exploited. This sight of my son still haunts me in my dreams.”24 ([Location 1706](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005HR5VVE&location=1706))