In medical news, a judge declared that a man whose heart, kidneys, liver, and pancreas were harvested by an organ recovery team prior to an official declaration of brain death was technically murdered. To wit, the coroner described his cause of death as "removal of his internal organs by an organ recovery team," rather than by a large caliber gunshot wound to the head at close range, which is what the man treated himself to prior to being killed by some greedy surgeons with an Igloo.

The judge said that, though he doesn't think the case is a criminal matter, it should be used to clarify what the legally "accepted standard is." Apparently the tests generally used to determine brain function were not clearly failed in this case, so the man could not technically be declared dead. Many medical ethicists long have supported widespread adoption of the "Percentage Brain Weight Scraped Off Of Surrounding Furniture Test" as a means for declaring death.

Analogcabin @ 1:32 PM
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