死亡标准与器官移植时的伦理痛苦与法律的无奈

On Brain-Death Standard and Organ Transplant:ethical uneasiness and legal helplessness

死亡是一个过程。基于纯功利主义考虑,为了增加可移植器官的供应量而人为规定的脑死亡标准,将这一过程提前了。由此,面对生命垂危、处于弥留之际的同胞,人类也永远摆脱不了良心的拷问,永远要生活在道德的焦虑和不安之中,感受着法律的无助与无奈。

Death is a process. The process is shortened with the adoption of brain- death standard, which comes into being in response to the critical shortage of transplantable organs and is justified on the utilitarian basis for the benefit of the living. There- after, men, when facing the dying fellows, are always questioned by their conscience and live in moral anxiety and uneasiness, and the helplessness of law.