Last Things
Andrew Sullivan via The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sul on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
William Saletan takes on the boundaries of organ harvesting:There's no "moment" of death. Some transplant surgeons wait five minutes after the last heartbeat. Others wait two. The Denver team waited 75 seconds, reasoning that no heart is known to have self-restarted after 60 seconds. That's pretty dicey readmore

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