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Response of Buddhism and Shintō to the Issue of Brain Death and Organ Transplant

1994; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 3; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0963180100005478

1469-2147

Helen Hardacre,

Organ and Tissue Transplantation Research

Japan has no law recognizing the condition of brain death as the standard for determining that an individual has died. Instead, it is customary medical practice to declare a person dead when three conditions have been met: cessation of heart beat, cessation of respiration, and opening of the pupils. Of the developed nations, only Japan and Israel do not recognize brain death as the death of the human person.