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Dr. Cranford has been an instrumental force in redefining the determination of death. Death was once defined as the time when the heart permanently stopped beating. Through Dr. Cranford’s activism, it was changed to coincide with the cessation of brain waves. The motivation for this redefinition was so that human organs would survive the death of the patient and be available for transplant.

HOORAY, someone finally posted my thinking. Organ donations are the entire reason we are dealing with issues regarding life-support (if you want to call it that). Many have paid the price for a few.

My contention is that the medical profession should evaluate the circumstances very carefully prior to attaching their so called life-support. Killing people who died naturally (without life-support) or would have died naturally (without life-support) at a later date for the sake of organs is not acceptible to me. And NO I do not believe organ donation is pro-life.

Death is when the heartbeat stops. Can't be anything else and to my knowledge there is no instrument in use that keeps the heartbeat beating. If we are able to believe life begins at conception when there are no brain waves how is it such a leap to believe life ends when the heart stops beating and the person cannot be revived in a minimal amount of time? Terri should not have been revived after 10 minutes and I wonder why she was if the intent was to kill her later.