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Dylematy etyczne wokół definicji śmierci mózgowej

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Picewicz J.

Edukacja Filozoficzna

2016

issue 62

21-33

In the article I discuss the ethical aspects of the definition of brain death. Persistent and irreversible cessation in determining of a brain stem, also known as brain death, is the basic criterion in determining human death. Patients classified as brain-dead are no longer subject to medical treatment, which turns aimless in their condition, and can have their organs removed for the purpose of donation. The main problem with current transplantation practice is the legitimacy of equating brain death with the dead of a person. Biological death of the brain does not automatically involve the biological death of the whole organism. The brain is the governor, the coordinator of a biological human structure, so its death means disintegration of the ability to biologically exist any further. The death of the brain stem is the core indicator, a landmark between life and full death. Defining brain death captures the difficulty of determining the very exact moment of death. The organs must remain alive for as long as possible and, at the same time, dead for as long as necessary, in order to implant them to another human being. This raises many ethical doubts which opens up philosophical debate.

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Dylematy etyczne wokół definicji śmierci mózgowej