The first heart transplant was perf...

The first heart transplant was performed in 1968 In the same year, the Harvard Ad Hoc Committee declared that a bodily form who was in irreversible coma was, for all practical designs though not in reality, dead. That self-contradictory notion of death was immediately adopted according to those who promoted organ harvesting and transplantation, and has been used through all ages since then in an attempt morally to justify these transactions despite the fact that there is still no agreement that the argument is valid.

Criticism in the relevant literature has included the following observations:

1 That the theory is highly controversial and