Category: Law

Your organs after death – a gift of life or an ethical boundary? This question touches on one of the most sensitive issues of modern medicine. On the one hand, transplants save thousands of lives, and conscious consent to donate organs seems like a beautiful gesture of solidarity. On the other hand, many people fear abuses, mention cases of organ harvesting without full consent, or even suspect that the brain death criterion was created mainly to increase “resources” for transplantation. Religions raise the argument of the sanctity of the body, while skeptics warn against the risk of a purely business-oriented approach to human organs. Is donating organs after death the highest form of altruism, or a decision that opens the door to abuses?

Harvesting organs from those in a state of so-called brain death has long sparked some of the hottest ethical debates. Doctors emphasize that this is the best moment for transplantation – the organs are still oxygenated and suitable for saving other patients’ lives. However, critics ask whether brain death is truly the death of a person, since the heart is beating and the body responds to stimuli. For part of society, it is a clear abuse – taking organs from people who still appear alive. Conspiracy theories go further, suggesting that the brain death criterion was created precisely to expand the “organ bank.” Does saving others’ lives justify such practices, or is this a boundary that must not be crossed?