Using a pioneering machine, NHS medics have been able to reanimate hearts from donors whose hearts had stopped. The technique has saved the lives of six British children aged from 12 to 16, and the transplants have all taken place during the pandemic.
So obviously this has huge implications for the halachic approach to declaring death. Question is: once this procedure becomes mainstream and common, will the "brainstem death" side of the debate now have to surrender to the "cardiac arrest" side?
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