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Comatose People to be Declared Dead for Use as Organ DonorsA federal law that defines death (UDDA) has been controversial since its inception in 1981, and experts on both sides of the issue admit that it has serious flaws. Most notably, organ donors declared dead under its criteria are, in fact, still alive.
However, in actual practice, doctors examine only the brainstem. The result is that people are being declared dead even though some still have detectable brainwaves, and others still have a part of the brain that functions, the hypothalamus. Lawyers have caught on, pointing out in lawsuits that the whole brain standard was not met for their clients. As a result, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) is working on updates to the UDDA based on proposals from the American Academy of Neurology (AAN).
In the interest of preventing lawsuits, the AAN is asking that the neurologic criteria of death be loosened even further and standardized across the United States. The revised UDDA is referred to as the RUDDA. The term "permanent" is being defined to mean that physicians do not intend to act to reverse the patient's condition. Thus, people in a coma whose prognosis is death will be declared dead under this new standard...Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here Continue reading here. 
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