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Vital Organ Donation I

You’ve probably seen TV commercials, billboards, and magazine articles encouraging you to give the “gift of life” through vital organ donation.

Death and Catholic Church Teaching

Since 1968, vital organs, necessary for life, have been removed from patients for transplantation. Since then, this has been morally justified by the claim that the donor is “brain dead” or has suffered “cardiac death.”