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  • Medical Ethics
  • Bioethics
  • Organ Donation

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  • Questions arise regarding whether brain death criteria accurately reflect natural death.
  • Vital organs are frequently retrieved from individuals declared brain dead.
  • Current organ donation practices face ethical challenges concerning brain death criteria.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and defend the ethical principle of Double Effect Donation.
  • To propose a novel approach to brain death and organ donation debates.
  • To reconcile organ retrieval with the sanctity and equality of human life.

Main Methods:

  • Philosophical argumentation and ethical analysis.
  • Application of the principle of double effect to organ donation scenarios.
  • Examination of existing debates on brain death criteria.

Main Results:

  • Double Effect Donation is presented as a permissible framework for organ donation.
  • It allows organ retrieval from individuals meeting brain death criteria, even if potentially alive.
  • The framework posits that the intention is to save lives, not cause death.

Conclusions:

  • Double Effect Donation offers a way forward, preserving current organ donation practices.
  • This ethical view is compatible with, and stems from, valuing human life's sacredness and equality.
  • It provides a justification for organ donation without compromising fundamental ethical principles.