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The Case for Presumed Consent
If you can remember back to when you first got your drivers’ license, you may recall being asked if you wanted to be an organ donor. You may not have thought much of it—I know that I, at 16, certainly didn’t—but with an average of 18 people dying every day waiting for an organ transplant…
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When is Brain Death Not Death
BY MIRIAM THORNE Israel, a first-world and technologically advanced country, has surprisingly low rates of organ donation. In 2007, only about 8% of Israelis were registered donors, compared to the 30-40% in most Western countries. Lawmakers and religious leaders have been working to increase the rate of organ donation, but efforts are particularly complicated in…
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