IS IT morally right to restart a dead person’s heart purely so it can be donated for transplant? This was the question posed this week by the British Medical Association in a seeking new sources of organs to redress a shortfall in the UK. Some 500 to 1000 British people die each year waiting for a transplant.
The practice of restarting hearts in people who have just died of heart failure to boost donation rates was first demonstrated in the US in 2008.
The logic is that keeping the heart ticking helps preserve it for longer. But the report…
