This was to increased use of donation after cardiac death (DCD) as a new strategy to grow the number of available organs because until recently, many organs have been transplanted from brain dead bodies. It seems justifiable to try to increasing the number of organs available for transplantation because it is important to care for patients with liver and kidney disease. However, this new mode of organ donation (DCD) is filled with controversy and some significant ethical reflection within the health care community.
Until recently, most organs have been transplanted from whole brain dead, which “ is equated with the death of the person” ( ITB, p.132). A person must be declared brain death before the medical team starts to harvest his/her organs. This type of organ transplantation is the so-called dead donor rule (SANGHAVI, 2009). For example there is this case of a brain-injured Amanda Panzini described in The New York Times journal. Her mother Robin Beaulieu were confronted by the possibility of donating her brain-injured daughter’s organs because her cerebral cortex — the part of