February 1, 2024

We Are Not Our Brains

You are not your brain, and brain death does not equal death. 

October 23, 2023

Doctors Change Brain Death Guidelines

The criteria for brain death have been revised repeatedly without scientific evidence.

August 26, 2023

Using People with 'Brain Death' as Lab Rats

A disturbing new experiment involving pig kidneys underlines the ethical problems with 'brain death' diagnoses.

April 22, 2023

Would I Receive a Transplant?

The answer to that question is “It depends.”

October 25, 2022

We Need an Ethical Definition of Death

While the definition of death is being fiercely debated in the medical literature, the public has been kept in the dark.

October 2, 2022

Doctors have a macabre new way to harvest organs

Think twice about that organ donor card.

September 8, 2022

Using people for spare parts, the quick and easy way

Maybe hold off on signing that "organ donor" card.