NY Times: When Does Death Start?

Darshak Sanghavi writes at the NY Times: “But Amanda first had to be declared dead, and in her case, the only way that could happen was if her parents chose a precisely choreographed death — one conducted by medical personnel in a hospital procedure meant to allow Amanda to die while preserving her organs . . . The paradox of needing a dead donor with a live body was first addressed in 1968 . . . Moving past a binary concept of life and death is, for most of us, an uncomfortable process . . .”