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KMID : 1142820190030010016
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Bio, Ethics and Policy
2019 Volume.3 No. 1 p.16 ~ p.33
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The Ethical Problem of Euthanasia of brain-dead patient for organ donation - The examination of ethical justification in nonvoluntary organ donation of brain-dead person
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Kim Tae-Kyung
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Abstract
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This paper examines two ethical issues in the organ donation of brain-dead patients. I first look at the issue of whether it is ethically justifiable if we decide to use a person’s organ who lacks one’s indicator of humanhood for maximizing social benefit. Second, I examine whether neurophysiological approach to human mental states clearly show what it is like to be in a mental state of personhood. Through these, this paper indicates two crucial problem involved in the utilitarian perspective on nonvoluntary euthanasia of brain-dead patients. First, it is not quite clear whether we have a right to decide one’s life and death even though the one lacks the indicator of humanhood because humanhood cannot be separated from both mind and body. Second, most utilitarian and sociological perspectives on the issues from brain-dead patients and nonvoluntary euthanasia are based on naturalistic fallacy. From these, this paper argues that the organ donation from nonvoluntary euthanasia of brain-death patients has a potential problem that would justify the intended evil which is done to pursue the good of social benefit.
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KEYWORD
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Brain-death, Organ donation, Nonvoluntary euthanasia, Person, Utilitarianism
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