Deborah Harrell wrote: > > "...Brazil recently passed a radical law designating > the state as "owner" and arbiter of dead bodies. The > law, in effect since January, makes all adults > universal donors at death, unless they declare > themselves "nondonors" by requesting new identity > cards or drivers' licenses officially stamped, "I am > not a donor for organs or tissues..." > [Is this still the law, Alberto, or has it been > changed? This was written in 1998.] > This is the law. But laws here aren't made to be enforced. I know of _no_ case where someone died and the organs were harvested.
> "...The line between "bought" and "gifted" organs is > indeed fuzzy, and considerable pressure can be exerted > on vulnerable family members to volunteer as donors. > Dr. C, a transplant surgeon in me state of Bahia, told > one of my research assistants of a young woman whose > brother threatened to kill her if she refused to give > him a kidney; the doctor had not known of the threat > at the time of the transplant... > Bahia is a state of Brazil. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
