Vox – no paywall: ”

• In the past decade, there’s been a boom in the number of organs available for transplantation in the US.
• Much of that growth has come from a little-known donation pathway called donation after circulatory death, or DCD.
• DCD allows patients who are dying but not brain-dead to donate organs after their life support is withdrawn and their circulation stops.
• That boom has raised questions about medicine’s ability to manage the boundary between life and death…”