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Organ donation boom blurs the line between life and death
Emily Hoffman, 34, was struck by a car in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighbourhood in February 2023 and went into traumatic cardiac arrest. Her case highlights a growing ethical tension in organ donation: automated CPR machines and new medical protocols allow organs to be harvested from patients who previously would not have qualified as donors. The boom in donations is forcing doctors, ethicists and families to grapple with an increasingly blurred boundary between life and death.
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