EN
This article was first delivered at the XI Congress of the Polish Transplantological Society, which took place in Bydgoszcz, 28–30 November, 2013. It discusses some of the reasons for the relatively low number of transplants from deceased donors in Poland. In the past, most of the reasons were of an ethical and cultural nature, while today most objections concern the problem that if the donors are in the state of a coma, they are still alive. Such doubts can also be noticed among doctors, which is why the problem can only be resolved if the medical community becomes uniform in their approach to the pr