对我国脑死亡法律标准制定依据的探讨

On legal criterion of brain-death in China

随着医学的进步 ,人类对死亡有了新的认识 ,心肺死亡不再表明个体生命的终结 ,只有脑死亡才能科学地表示生命的结束。现行的法律制度使医生在进行器官移植时置身于法律责任的阴影之下 ,造成器官移植这一社会行为的大幅萎缩 ,使相当一批能够延续的生命个体丧失了生的机会 ,这不利于实践救死扶伤的医疗道德。脑死亡标准基于社会主义的人道主义与功利主义 ,而非资本主义的个人主义。在我国社会转型的历史进程中 ,民众的思想观念逐步现代化 ,为这一标准的合法化奠定了相应的社会文化基础。我国出台脑死亡法律标准的条件已经成熟。

With the development of medical science, more knowledge on death has been acquired. Due to the shortage of legal criterion of brain-death, doctors who perform transplantation of organs will be under the shadow of legal responsibilities, thus a number of patients lost their chances of surviving. The criterion of brain-death is based on humanitarianism and utilitarianism rather than on the privatism. In China, brain death is acquiring a better understanding by more and more people who are accepting new ideas in the new period, which have provided practical basis for the legal criterion of brain death to be established and carried out.